It is most fitting that Northwestern University Press, long a leading publisher of Russian literature in translation, launches the Northwestern World Classics series with a new translation of Russia's greatest poet. Included are many famous poems well known to, and often memorized by, every educated Russian, as well as lighter, more occasional pieces.
Renowned translator James Falen s collection of 167 of Pushkin s lyrics is arranged chronologically, beginning with verse written in the poet s teenage years Pushkin published his first poem at fifteen and was widely revered by his later...
It is most fitting that Northwestern University Press, long a leading publisher of Russian literature in translation, launches the Northwestern Wor...
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Whale and Star Press Anna Akhmatova (1889 1966) was a skilled love poet who, through no choice of her own, became a witness to mass violence, a widely recognized exemplar of endurance and moral strength, and finally a symbol of Russian national resilience. At the start of her career, during the final years of the Russian Empire, Akhmatova was a cultural celebrity who fascinated a generation not only with her poetry but also with the drama that she created around herself. After the revolution of 1917, she was attacked as a...
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Whale and Star Press Anna Akhmatova (1889 1966) was a skilled love poet who, through no...