Contents: Robert Louis Jackson: Vyacheslav Ivanov: An Introduction; Victor Erlich: The Symbolist Ambience and Vyacheslav Ivanov; Poet: Sergey Averintsev: The Poetry of Vyacheslav Ivanov; Vladimir Markov: Vyacheslav Ivanov the Poet: A Tribute and a Reappraisal; Johannes Holthusen: Vyacheslav Ivanov's Cor Ardens and the Esthetics of Symbolism; Anna Tamarchenko: The Poetics of Vyacheslav Ivanov: Lectures Given at Baku University; Edward Stankiewicz: Vyacheslav Ivanov's Views on the Sound Fabric of Poetry; Tomas Venclova: "Jazyk": An Analysis of the Poem; Alexis Klimoff: The First Sonnet in Vyacheslav Ivanov's Roman Cycle; Lowry Nelson, Jr., translator: The Roman Sonnets of Vyacheslav Ivanov; Critic: Pamela Davidson: Vyacheslav Ivanov and Dante; Lowry Nelson, Jr.: Translatio Lauri: Ivanov's Translations of Petrarch; Ilya Serman: Vyacheslav Ivanov and Russian Poetry of the Eighteenth Century; Carol Anschuetz: Ivanov and Bely's Petersburg; Rene Wellek: The Literary Criticism of Vyacheslav Ivanov; John E. Malmstad: Mandelshtam's "Silentium": A Poet's Response to Ivanov; Aleksis Rannit: Vyacheslav Ivanov's Reflective Comprehension of Art: The Poet and Thinker as Critic of Somov, Bakst, and Chiurlionis; Classical Scholar and Philosopher: Vasily Rudich: Vyacheslav Ivanov and Classical Antiquity; Fausto Malcovati: The Myth of the Suffering God and the Birth of Greek Tragedy in Ivanov's Dramatic Theory; Heinrich Stammler: Vyacheslav Ivanonv and Nietzsche; James West: Ivanov's Theory of Knowledge: Kant and Neo-Kantianism; Victor Terras: Vyacheslav Ivanov's Esthetic Thought: Context and Antecedents; Robert Louis Jackson: Ivanov's Humanism: A Correspondence from Two Corners; Cyril Fotiev: Ivanov's Letter to Charles Du Bos: Confessionalism and Christian Unity; Dmitri Ivanov: Recurrent Motifs in Ivanov's Work; Reminiscences and Chronology: Lydia Ivanova: Reminiscences; Valery N. Blinov: Chronology of the Life and Works of Vyacheslav I. Ivanov.

"...it provides a many-faceted portrait of this most erudite and cultured of poets, and will undoubtedly serve as a strong stimulus to further research." (SEER)