Vladimir Mayakovsky was one of the towering literary figures of pre- and post-revolutionary Russia, speaking as much to the working man (he often employed the rough talk of the streets and revolutionary rhetoric in his poetry) as to other poets (his creative fascination with sound and form, linguistic metamorphosis and variation made him a sort of \'poet\'s poet\', the doyen, if not the envy, of his contemporaries, Pasternak among them).
His poetry, influenced by Whitman and Verhaeren and strang.
Vladimir Mayakovsky was one of the towering literary figures of pre- and post-revolutionary Russia, speaking as much to the working man (he often employed the rough talk of the streets and revolutionary rhetoric in his poetry) as to other poets (his creative fascination with sound and form, linguistic metamorphosis and variation made him a sort of \'poet\'s poet\', the doyen, if not the envy, of his contemporaries, Pasternak among them)
