Reinventing Romantic Poetry : Russian Women Poets of the Mid-nineteenth Century

grateful to Karina Melnikov and Irina Reyfman for advice on Russian,

Claudine Verheggen on French, Ron Meyer on translation, and Masha

Lykhina on Russian and Russian computers. Any mistakes that remain

are my own.

Thanks to Mary Zirin for inspiration and to Gloria Rohmann, a friend

in need. Ann Kleimola, Clara Evans, Shirley Glade, Ann Kaslow, Lucy

Morganstern, and Randall Spinks supplied steady and much appreci-

ated encouragement while I wrote and revised.

My work was greatly facilitated by two New York University Li-

braries Goddard Faculty Support Grants and an International Research

and Exchanges Board Short Term Travel Grant. Harvard University

Press kindly gave permission to reprint part of “I’m Nobody! Who Are

You?” which appears in The Poems of Emily Dickinson.I wish to express

appreciation to the University Seminars at Columbia University for

their help in publication. Thanks to those most knowledgeable reference

librarians of the Slavic Reading Room at the University of Illinois at

Champaign-Urbana for research help over several summers. Also to my

supportive colleagues at NYU’s Bobst Library, who so effectively helped

me with my reference questions, interlibrary loan requests, and com-

puter problems, and to Chris Holden and the Bates College Library for

making it possible for me to work there in very pleasant conditions.

And, of course, my thanks to my parents, who made everything pos-

sible.

x Acknowledgments