The description for this book, Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Commentary, will be forthcoming.

Prof. Briggs provides an introduction which looks closely at the poetry
and then, taking the death of Lensky as the most important event,
considers the sotry, the characters and the hidden meanings of the
novel. English introduction, Russian text and notes and glossary.

Forty years after Pushkin's death, Dostoyevsky wrote: 'Everything we
have comes from Pushkin'. This is no exaggeration. When Pushkin started
writing, Russian poetry was either composed from the lofty, solemn
language of the Old Church Slavonic, or from elements of French and
German poetry, with a characteristic abundance of barbarism and cliche.
Pushkin cast aside the conventional poetic language of his time,
stripping it of pompous embellishments and incorporating into his work
everyday words and expressions that his predecessors had regarded as
vulgarisms....