| Description |
xii, 308 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
The Pushkin texts are translated from v. 7 of Polnoe Sobranie Sochineniĭ. 1956-58. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
On prose -- On French literature -- A letter to the editor of Son of the fatherland -- An objection to A. Bestuzhev's essay "A look at Russian literature during 1824 and the beginning of 1825" -- On Mme. Staël and on Mr. A.M-V. -- On M. Lemontey's foreword to the translation of I.A. Krylov's fables -- On classical and romantic poetry -- On the poem "The demon" -- On André Chénier -- On tragedy -- On nationalism in literature -- An objection to Küchelbecker's essay in Mnemosyne -- On the almanac The northern lyre -- Eugene Baratynsky's poems -- On Byron's dramas -- Fragments from letters, thoughts, and notes -- Materials for "Fragments from letters, thoughts, and notes" -- Variants to "Fragments from letters, thoughts, and notes" -- On Olin's tragedy The Corsair -- A letter to the publisher of The Moscow messenger -- On poetic style -- On Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet -- On Walter Scott's novels -- On the translation of B. Constant's novel Adolphe -- Homer's Iliad / translated by N. Gnedich -- On criticism -- A conversation about criticism -- On journal criticism -- Yury Miloslavsky, or, The Russians in 1612 -- On The memoirs of Samson -- Morning-star -- On Prince Vyazemsky's essays -- Drafts of a preface to Boris Godunov -- Refutations of criticisms -- On Alfred de Musset -- Baratynsky -- On national drama and on Marfa Posadnitsa -- A remark about Count Nulin -- A review of reviews -- Vie, poésies et pensées de Joseph Delorme and Les consolations, Poésies par Sainte-Beuve -- The triumph of friendship, or, Alexander Anfimovich Orlov justified -- A letter to the editor of Literary supplement to the Russian invalid -- On Victor Hugo -- The poetic works and translations of Pavel Katenin -- On the insignificance of Russian literature -- The memoirs of Chuxin, a work by Faddey Bulgarin -- Zagoskin's comedy The Dissatisfied -- Wastola, or Desires, a tale in verse by Wieland -- Evenings on a farm near Dikanka -- Alexander Radishchev -- S.P. Shevyrev's The history of poetry -- M.E. Lovanov's Opinion about the spirit of literature, foreign and our own -- Voltaire -- The journey of V.L.P. -- On the Duties of man, a work by Sylvio Pellico -- A letter to the publisher -- On Milton and Chateaubriand's translation of Paradise lost == The song of Igor's campaign -- The last of Joan of Arc's relatives -- Notes and aphorisms -- Table-talk -- Appendix : works by Pushkin's contemporaries: On the trend of our poetry, especially the lyric, during the last decade / W. Küchelbecker ; In place of a foreword to The fountain of Bakhchisarai, a conversation between the publisher and a classicist from the Vyborg side or Vasilev Island / P. Vyazemsky ; Selections from notebooks / P. Vyazemsky ; A few thoughts about poetry / K. Ryleev ; A critique of the essay on Eugene Onegin published in The Moscow telegraph (1825) / D. Venevitinov. |
| Subject |
Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837 -- Translations into English.
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Russian literature -- History and criticism.
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Proffer, Carl R., editor.
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| Added Title |
Selections. English. 1969
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| ISBN |
0253315689 |
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