Evgeny Boratynsky and the Russian Golden Age : unstudied words that wove and wavered /: unstudied words that wove and wavered. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Poems.
• Further Information: Note: Translated from the Russian, with an introduction and commentary by Anatoly Liberman.
• Authors: Baratynskiĭ, E. A (Evgeniĭ Abramovich), 1800-1844
• Editors: Liberman, Anatoly
• Contents: Cover -- Front Matter -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments and a Few Editorial Remarks -- Chapters -- To The Reader: Why Boratynsky? -- Introduction -- 1. Boratynsky: An Outline of His Life and Work -- a. The early years. The catastrophe. Military Service. Contacts with Delvig and Pushkin's circle. Rise to fame, oblivion and partial resurrection in the Silver Age and at present -- b. Finland. Infatuation with Ponomareva. Ponomareva's salon. Symptoms of a literary rift among her admirers. Her early death C. Boratynsky's marriage. Boratynsky in relation to his poetic persona. His wife's personality -- d. Boratynsky's achievement during the last years in Finland. Retirement from the military service. From the erotic genre to eschatological poems. The old rift between the Classicists and the Romantics becomes a war -- e. Boratynsky and "the lovers of wisdom." Boratynsky and Schelling. Boratynsky and philosophy. The commonplace of Boratynsky cr F. The eclipse of Boratynsky's popularity. Boratynsky's narrative poems. Boratynsky versus Pushkin. His complex relationship with the Romantic school. An alleged rapprochement between Boratynsky and realism -- g. The last years. "Twilight." Boratynsky's unexpected death at the age of 44 -- 2. The Poetic World of Evgeny Boratynsky -- a. Boratynsky's view of his Muse and his gift. His desire to lend the harmony of poetry to life. Boratynsky's elegies. The inseparability of joy and sorrow in his lyrics. The theme of disease as a dominating theme of his lyrics B. Death, progress and the eclipse of civilization in Boratynsky's poetry -- c. Epistles and odes in Boratynsky's days. Boratynsky as a dark poet. His orientation toward the past and emphasis on rejection. The literary war. Boratynsky's epigrams -- d. Boratynsky's hope for a peaceful future. His death -- 3. A Summary of Boratynsky's Poetic Persona. Some Thoughts on His Language and on Translating Him into English -- a. A condensed view of Boratynsky's poetic persona. His alter ego as the precursor of "the superfluous people" of Russian literature B. The poetic means for expressing estrangement and rejection. Retardation and archaic vocabulary -- dense syntax (inversion) -- c. Boratynsky's euphony (alliteration and other phonetic devices) -- d. Boratynsky's meter and rhythm. Lines of varying length -- 4. Boratynsky in English -- 5. A Note on the Bibliography -- Poems -- Part One -- Embarrassed to be Merry -- Part Two -- My Gift is Faint -- Part Three -- Poetry's Mysterious Grief -- Commentary -- End Matter -- General Index -- The Boratynsky Index -- Index of Titles and First Lines in English -- Index of Titles and First lines in Russian
• Publisher Details: London New York : Anthem Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 891.713; Russian poetry -- Translations into English; POETRY / Russian & Former Soviet Union; Russian poetry; Electronic books; Electronic books; Translations; Translations into English
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781785271373; 1785271377; 9781785271380; 1785271385
• Related ISBNs: 9781785271366; 1785271369
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 23, 2020).
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