Akhmatova and Pushkin: The genres of elegy and ballad.

Discusses the influence of the early 19th-century poetic tradition and Alexander Pushkin on Anna Akhmatova, within the framework of the structural models that are presented by the generic categories of elegy and ballad. Semantic function of intertextuality within Akhmatova's poetic system; Pushkin as the center of network allusions; Ways in which Akhmatova responded to the literary tradition.