Contents: Avril Pyman: Aleksander Blok: The Tragedy of Two Truths; Robert Abernathy: The Lonely Vision of Alexander Blok (Blok's Vowel Fugue Revisited); Henryk Baran: Some Reminiscences in Blok: Vampirism and Its Antecedents; John E. Bowlt: Here and There: The Question of Space in Blok's Poetry; Anna Lisa Crone: Blok's "Venecija" and Molnii iskusstva as Inspiration to Mandel'shtam: Parallels in the Italian Materials; Sam Driver: Axmatova's Poema bez geroia and Blok's Vozmezdie; Thomas Eekman: The Evolution of Blok's Poetical Syntax; Efim Etkind: "Karmen" Aleksandra Bloka: Liricheskaia poema kak antiroman; Lawrence E. Feinberg: Of Two Minds: Linear vs. Non-Linear in Blok; Joan Delaney Grossman: Blok, Brjusov, and the Prekrasnaja Dama; Emily Klenin: "O doblestjax, o podvigax, o slave..." and its status in the cycle Vozmezdie: Andrej Kodjak: Alexandr Blok's Circular Structure; Irene Masing-Delic: Zhivago's "Christmas Star" as Homage to Blok; Gerald Pirog: The Language of Love and the Limits of Language; Avril Pyman: Aleksandr Blok and the Merezhkovskijs; Bogdan B. Sagatov: Blok's Nochnaja Fialka: The Self Through Dream; Marena Senderovich: Nezavisimyi atribut, ili contradictio in adjecto, v Knige Vtoroj Bloka; Savely Senderovich: Semioticheskii radikal blokovskoi semantiki; David Sloane: The Cyclical Dynamics of Blok's "Zhizn' moego priiatelia"; Edward Stankiewicz: The Polyphonic Structure of Blok's Dvenadcat'; Walter N. Vickery: Blok's Solov'inyj sad: The Stuff of Tragedy; Lucy Vogel: The Poet's Wife: Ljubov' Dmitrievna Mendeleeva.

"The twenty-one excellent papers ... in this collection suggest that the occasion was worthy of the great poet... Our overall knowledge of Blok's life, technique, preoccupations and spiritual torment is greatly advanced by this rewarding collection of essays." (ISS)

"Future students of Blok will find the collection an indispensable source for information on specific topics as well as for guidance on fruitful approaches to the poetry." (SEEJ)