A new collection of Pushkin's great narrative and lyric verse, translated by Antony Wood
WINNER OF THE READ RUSSIA PRIZE 2020
Alexander Pushkin established what we know as Russian literature. This collection includes his strongly personal lyric verse, which springs spontaneously from his everyday life - his numerous loves, his exile, his hectic life in St Petersburg - while the narrative poems here, from exotic Southern tales to comic parodies and fairy tales of enchanted tsars, display his endless ability to surprise. His landmark work The Bronze Horseman, with its ghostly central figure of Peter the Great, holds the meaning of all Russian history. Antony Wood's translations reveal the variety, inventiveness and perfection of Pushkin's verse.
A new collection of Pushkin's great narrative and lyric verse, translated by Antony Wood
WINNER OF THE READ RUSSIA PRIZE 2020
Alexander Pushkin established what we know as Russian literature. This collection includes his strongly personal lyric verse, which springs spontaneously from his everyday life - his numerous loves, his exile, his hectic life in St Petersburg - while the narrative poems here, from exotic Southern tales to comic parodies and fairy tales of enchanted tsars, display his endless ability to surprise. His landmark work The Bronze Horseman, with its ghostly central figure of Peter the Great, holds the meaning of all Russian history. Antony Wood's translations reveal the variety, inventiveness and perfection of Pushkin's verse.
A new collection of Pushkin's great narrative and lyric verse, translated by Antony Wood.
Alexander Pushkin was born in Moscow in 1799. He was exiled for his
liberal views on serfdom and autocracy, but this allowed him the
freedom to write some of his greatest works, including his novel in
verse, Eugene Onegin. He died in 1837 after being fatally wounded
in a duel.
Antony Wood is an editor and translator from Russian and German,
and also runs the publishing house Angel Books.
'Wood's lively translations grasp the irrepressible sense of
freedom which is the poet's hallmark ... Pushkin is lucky in Antony
Wood. Pleasure is to be found on every page of this book'
*The Times Literary Supplement*
This Selected Poetry by Antony Wood supersedes all previous
translations ... Wood's 'The Bronze Horseman' gives us Pushkin at
his most tragic. 'Count Nulin' shows him at his most light-hearted.
'The Tale of Tsar Saltan' bounces along with delightful vitality.
Even with the delicately musical short lyrics - still harder to
translate - Wood's success rate is remarkable ... The result is a
more rounded picture of Pushkin - in many ways the most universal
of poets
*The Financial Times*
This Selected Poetry deserves a wealth of praise . . . a truly
valuable edition both for its scrupulous and often magnificent
versions of individual poems and as a worthy general introduction
to this poet, who is such a treasure for Russia and for the
world
*Los Angeles Review of Books*
Everybody knows how difficult Pushkin's poems are to translate.
Antony Wood has succeeded, within the limits of the possible
*John Bayley*
Re-creating Pushkin requires skills approaching magic. Antony Wood
is one of the two or three best translators of Russia's greatest
poet in the Anglophone world, because his Pushkin moves: you watch
him dance as well as hear him sing
*Caryl Emerson*
Antony Wood's translations show an unusual grace and a deep
knowledge of Pushkin's poetry
*Elaine Feinstein*
Pushkin's poetry is lyrical, beautifully simple, vivid, and
endlessly emotive. It can be enjoyed by all readers, regardless of
their background in poetry. And there is now one definitive book of
Alexander Pushkin's poetry, the one book you need to read in order
to fully appreciate Alexander Pushkin's poems: Alexander Pushkin
Selected Poetry, translated with complete command and majesty by
Antony Wood
*Books and Bao*
A volume to keep within easy reach at most times
*East-West Review*
Anthony Wood is to be congratulated on this suburb collection,
which renders Pushkin in all his matchless grace, wit and
musicality
*The Tablet*
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