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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2012
Print publication year:
2004
Online ISBN:
9780511606700
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511606700
Subjects:
Literature, Area Studies, English Literature: General Interest, European Literature, European Studies
Series:
Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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Book description

The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Poetry presents the major themes, forms, genres and styles of Russian poetry. Using examples from Russia's greatest poets, Michael Wachtel draws on three centuries of verse, from the beginnings of secular literature in the eighteenth century up to the present day. The first half of the book is devoted to concepts such as versification, poetic language and tradition; the second half is organised along genre lines and examines the ode, the elegy, ballads, love poetry, nature poetry and patriotic verse. All poetry appears in the original followed by literal translations. This book is designed to give readers with even a minimal knowledge of the Russian language an appreciation of the brilliance of Russian poetry.

Reviews

'This book will help students who are making the leap across the apparently daunting gap between coping with spoken Russian or Russian prose and tackling a poetic text … A helpful index of poetic terms and a reassuringly select list of further reading are provided to help those who are entirely new to the topic. The book is … a 'guide to reading, interpreting, and appreciating it' … This aim is most certainly achieved … This book offers a concise and concentrated account of the things that poets can do with words, and readers with texts.'

Source: MLR

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Contents

Contents
References
Bibliography
Suggested further reading
Bibliography
Akhmatova, Anna, Sochineniia, Washington: Inter-Language Literary Associates, 1965–83
Al'fonsov, V. N., and S. R. Krasitskii (eds.), Poeziia russkogo futurizma, Saint Petersburg: Akademicheskii proekt, 1999
Baratynskii, E. A., Polnoe sobranie stikhotvorenii, Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1989
Batiushkov, Konstantin, Polnoe sobranie stikhotvorenii, Moscow: Sovetskii pisatel', 1964
Blok, Aleksandr, Stikhotvoreniia, Moscow: Sovetskii pisatel', 1955
Briusov, Valerii, Sochineniia, Moscow: Sovetskii pisatel', 1987
Brodskii, Iosif, Sochineniia Iosifa Brodskogo, Saint Petersburg: Pushkinskii fond, 1998
Derzhavin, Gavrila, Stikhotvoreniia, Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1957
Fet, Afanasii, Stikhotvoreniia i poemy, Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1986
Gippius, Zinaida, Stikhotvoreniia, Saint Petersburg: Akademicheskii proekt, 1999
Iazykov, Nikolai, Stikhotvoreniia i poemy, Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1988
Iskrenko, Nina, Ili: Stikhi i teksty, Moscow: Sovetskii pisatel', 1991
Ivanov, Georgii, Sobranie sochinenii v trekh tomakh, Moscow: Soglasie, 1994
Ivanov, Viacheslav, Stikhotvoreniia, poemy, tragediia, Saint Petersburg: Akademicheskii proekt, 1995
Kantemir, Antiokh, Sobranie stikhotvorenii, Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1956
Khodasevich, Vladislav, Stikhotvoreniia, Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1989
Kibirov, Timur, Kto kuda – a ia v Rossiiu, Moscow: Vremia, 2001
Kuzmin, Mikhail, Stikhotvoreniia, Saint Petersburg: Akademicheskii proekt, 1996
Lermontov, Mikhail, Polnoe sobranie stikhotvorenii v dvukh tomakh, Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1989
Lomonosov, Mikhailo, Izbrannye proizvedeniia, Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1986
Maiakovskii, Vladimir, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, Moscow: Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1955–61
Mandel'shtam, Osip, Polnoe sobranie stikhotvorenii, Saint Petersburg: Akademicheskii proekt, 1997
Nekrasov, N. A., Polnoe sobranie sochinenii v trekh tomakh, Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1967
Pasternak, Boris, Stikhotvoreniia i poemy v dvukh tomakh, Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1990
Prigov, Dmitrii, Napisannoe s 1975 po 1989, Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 1997
Pushkin, Aleksandr, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii v desiati tomakh, Leningrad: Nauka, 1977–79
Radishchev, Aleksandr, Izbrannoe, Leningrad: Molodaia gvardiia, 1949
Scott, Sir Walter, Poetical Works, London: Macmillan, 1935
Soloviev, Vladimir, Stikhotvoreniia i shutochnye p'esy, Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1974
Sosnora, Viktor, Verkhovnyi chas: stikhi, Saint Petersburg: Peterburgskii pisatel', 1998
Tiutchev, Fedor, Polnoe sobranie stikhotvorenii, Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1987
Trediakovskii, Vasilii, Izbrannye proizvedeniia, Moscow: Sovetskii pisatel', 1963
Tsvetaeva, Marina, Stikhotvoreniia i poemy, Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1990
Viazemskii, Petr, Stikhotvoreniia, Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1958
Zhukovskii, Vasilii, Sobranie sochinenii v chetyrekh tomakh, Moscow: Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1959–60
Suggested further reading
Bilingual anthologies of poetry
Kelly, Catriona (ed.), An Anthology of Russian Women's Writing, 1777–1992, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Contains mainly prose, but also almost one hundred pages of Russian poetry in English translation, with the originals printed in an appendix
Obolensky, Dimitri (ed.), The Heritage of Russian Verse, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976. Originally published as The Penguin Book of Russian Verse, London: Penguin Books, 1962. Offers an excellent selection of major poets with reliable English prose translations
Smith, Gerald S. (ed.), Contemporary Russian Poetry, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. Conceived of as a sequel to the Obolensky; includes the work of many significant poets of the last twenty-five years
General studies of poetry
Hofstadter, Douglas, Le Ton Beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language, New York: Basic Books, 1997. Uses theory and practice of translation as a means to discuss the uniqueness of poetry. One chapter is devoted to Russian poetry, but the entire book raises important questions in a quirky yet highly readable way
Steele, Timothy, All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification, Athens: Ohio University Press, 1999. While limited to English-language poetry, this book is an accessible and intelligent introduction to many questions that are equally relevant to the Russian tradition
Russian textbooks on poetry
Bogomolov, N. A. Stikhotvornaia rech': Posobie dlia uchashchikhsia starshikh klassov, Moscow: Interpraks, 1995
Gasparov, M. L. Russkie stikhi 1890-kh–1925-go godov v kommentariiakh, Moscow: Vysshaia shkola, 1993. Republished under the title Russkii stikh nachala II veka v kommentariiakh, Moscow: Fortuna Limited, 2001
Lotman, Iu. M. Analiz poeticheskogo teksta, Leningrad: Prosveshchenie, 1972. Republished in Iu. M. Lotman, O poetakh i poezii, Saint Petersburg: Iskusstvo–SPB, 1996. This work also exists in an English version, though long out of print: Yuri Lotman, Analysis of the Poetic Text, edited and translated by D. Barton Johnson, Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1976
Classic studies of Russian poetry:
Gasparov, M. L. Ocherk istorii russkogo stikha, Moscow: Nauka, 1984. Republished under the same title – Moscow: Fortuna Limited, 2000. Divides Russian poetry into six periods and highlights for each one the distinguishing features of rhythm, meter, rhyme, and stanzaic forms. Encyclopedic and brilliant, but not an easy read
Ginzburg, Lidiia, O lirike, Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1974, republished under the same title – Moscow: Intrada, 1997. An insightful study of Russian poetry from the elegiac school to the early twentieth century with emphasis on genre and style
Jakobson, Roman, Language in Literature, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. Contains numerous seminal essays of poetic analysis as well as influential statements about the nature of poetry
Recent Western studies of Russian poetry
Sandler, Stephanie (ed.), Rereading Russian Poetry, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. Analyses from a variety of theoretical positions of specific poems of both canonic and lesser-known poets
Scherr, Barry, Russian Poetry: Meter, Rhythm, and Rhyme, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. A detailed yet clear discussion of all aspects of Russian versification
Wachtel, Michael, The Development of Russian Verse: Meter and Its Meanings, Cambridge University Press, 1998. Focuses on the connection between form and meaning, considering many issues not treated in the present study

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