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An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited
by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris
Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski. In the late eighteenth and early
nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was
unchallenged, with Pushkin and his contemporaries ushering in the
'Golden Age' of Russian literature. Prose briefly gained the high
ground in the second half of the nineteenth century, but poetry
again became dominant in the 'Silver Age' (the early twentieth
century), when belief in reason and progress yielded once more to a
more magical view of the world. During the Soviet era, poetry
became a dangerous, subversive activity; nevertheless, poets such
as Osip Mandelstam and Anna Akhmatova continued to defy the
censors. This anthology traces Russian poetry from its Golden Age
to the modern era, including work by several great poets - Georgy
Ivanov and Varlam Shalamov among them - in captivating modern
translations by Robert Chandler and others. The volume also
includes a general introduction, chronology and individual
introductions to each poet. Robert Chandler is an acclaimed poet
and translator. His many translations from Russian include works by
Aleksandr Pushkin, Nikolay Leskov, Vasily Grossman and Andrey
Platonov, while his anthologies of Russian Short Stories from
Pushkin to Buida and Russian Magic Tales are both published in
Penguin Classics. Irina Mashinski is a bilingual poet and
co-founder of the StoSvet literary project. Her most recent
collection is 2013's Ophelia i masterok [Ophelia and the Trowel].
Boris Dralyuk is a Lecturer in Russian at the University of St
Andrews and translator of many books from Russian, including, most
recently, Isaac Babel's Red Cavalry (2014).
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Imprint: |
Penguin Classics
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
February 2015 |
Editors: |
Boris Dralyuk
• Irina Mashinski
• Robert Chandler
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Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - B-format
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Pages: |
592 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-14-119830-9 |
Languages: |
English
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Subtitles: |
Russian
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Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-14-119830-3 |
Barcode: |
9780141198309 |
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