Echoes of the Russian verse
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (679 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1477467254 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-29 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The poems in this book are written according to the author’s self-imposed imperative to concurrently preserve the four key aspects of the source poems: the rhythm, the rhyming, the meanings and the feelings. If only…" (from the back cover of the book). There is only one type of information written in Russian that can be found in this book: the titles of the source poems. It is hoped that one can enjoy reading it without regard to the poems’ source information. This poetry collection is not systematic in any way. Simply, the author was internally compelled to present a few wonderful Russian poems in meaningful, poetic English. This book highlights a very thin sliver of Russian poetry written between 1825 to 2000, just a few poems by Alexander Pushkin, Fyodor Tutchev, Mikhail Lermontov, Nikolai Nekrasov, Sasha Cherny, Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, Ovsey Driz, Bulat Okudzhava, Eldar Ryazanov, Lev Khalif, Andrei Voznesensky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Naum Sagalovsky, Alexander Kushner, Vladimir Visotsky, Joseph Brodsky, Andrei Orlov.. There are no biographical notes on the Russian poets, no com
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