130 The Poet and the Painter – The Great Love Affair of Anna Akhmatova and Amedeo Modigliani

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

Arts, History, Books

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2018

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) began her career as a poet of love and ended it as the poet of suffering and heartbreak, thanks in no small part to the totalitarian Russian regime she suffered under. On today’s special Valentine’s Day edition of The History of Literature, we look at Akhmatova’s poetry and life, and consider what might be her moment of greatest happiness: the youthful affair she had in Paris with Italian painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920). What happened when these two soul mates met? How did it affect their art? What happened to them afterwards? And what does it mean for us today? Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. Learn more about the show at historyofliterature.com. Contact the host at jackewilsonauthor@gmail.com. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio. Oh, no, no, me in a row.
0:15.0	Clow in a house.
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0:20.0	a little bit lee, the chimpie. Hello, welcome to a special Valentine's Day edition of The History of Literature. The Okay. Okay, here we go. I'm Jack Wilson. Welcome to the show. Here we go. We have a wonderful show today. It's a heartbreaking story. It's a love story and a happy ending.
1:17.0	Maybe. Maybe. Look, it's not always easy to find happy endings among the poets and novelists and authors or even
1:25.9	characters. We reject happy endings often. Part of it's our fault. We as audiences, because we know life is more complicated than that. Literature
1:37.2	follows life so literature is often more complicated too.
1:41.3	Happiness is a complicated business. We'll go through all that
1:46.2	before we jump into our fascinating story. I think we'll end up talking a little
1:50.3	about love today, a little about poetry, a little about poetry a little about art a little about
1:55.6	happiness and a lot about life happy Valentine's Day I hope you're in a good
2:01.4	place this year ready for the day. I'm in a good place right
2:06.0	here in the Jack Wilson studio there's a door here that people sometimes knock on
2:12.0	sometimes People sometimes they interrupt people who knock on the door.
2:17.0	Oh, there we go.
2:22.0	There's a knocking now. What a surprise. Hello?
2:25.0	Ah.
2:27.0	I'm visited by...
2:29.0	I'm Elizabeth Bennett, star of the novel Pride and Prejudice.
2:33.6	Here to deliver a morsel of news,
2:36.3	Mr Darcy and I are expecting.
2:40.9	Hazar to us.
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