SOURCE: "Poets of Today," in The Poets of Russia 1890-1930, Harvard University Press, 1960, pp. 316-42.

One of the most striking features of Bagritsky's poetry is the way in which many of his images migrate over a number of years from poem to poem, appearing in quite diverse contexts. Together these images form pictures which change, as time passes, according to the combinations of images composing them. Such are the concreteness and vividness of Bagritsky's poetry that it has become a commonplace for commentators to refer to its images as conjuring up a whole poetic world.

—Wendy Rosslyn, in her "The Path to Paradise: Recurrent Images in the Poetry of Eduard Bagritsky," in The Modern Language Review, January 1976.

[Poggioli was an Italian-born American critic and translator. Much of his critical writing is concerned with Russian literature, including The Poets of Russia: 1890-1930, which is one of the most important...