A remarkable poetic account of a man and his daughter. Though relatively unpublished in the Soviet Union until the late 1980's, Gennady Aygi's work has been translated into some twenty languages, and has received major acclaim through many parts of the world. Child-and-Rose is a unique collection of poems and prose chosen and arranged by the author and translator. Taking as its central themes childhood, sleep, and silence in relation to poetic creation, the book is divided into five sections -- "Veronica's Book, " "Sleep-and-Poetry, " "Before and After the Book, " "Silvia's World, " and...

A study of the place and nature of the ideal of politeness in seventeenth and eighteenth-century writing in France, Britain and Russia. This ideal covered not just polite manners, but all the "civilized" norms of society and culture, as opposed to elements considered childish, irrational, savage or vulgar. Professor France shows how interpenetration and compromise between polite and rude, tame and wild, are central features of classical writings, arguing that polite society needed and desired its opposite.

This title celebrates Mikhail Lermontov's Scottish ancestry with 14 new translations by translator-poets, most of whom are Scottish.