Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), along with Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, and Marina Tsvetaeva, was one of the great poets on the Soviet period. He was also a brilliant essayist who took the destruction of his culture as one of his main subjects. This comprehensive volume contains most of Mandelstam's essays, reviews, memoirs, reportage, sketches, polemics, forewords, fragments, and notes -- and the major long prose works of the 1930s, including "Fourth Prose," "Journey to Armenia," and "Conversation about Dante."