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Verses and versions : three centuries of Russian poetry / selected and translated by Vladimir Nabokov ; edited by Brian Boyd and Stanislav Shvabrin ; introduction by Brian Boyd. - 1st ed. - Orlando, Fl. : Harcourt, c2008. - xxxv, 441 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nabokov on translation -- Nabokov: verses and versions. Mihail Lomonosov (1711-1765). Gavrila Derzhavin (1743-1816). Nikolay Karamzin (1766-1826). Konstantin Batyushkov (1787-1855). Vilgelm Kyukhelbeker (1797-1846). Anton Delvig (1798-1831). Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837). Evgeniy Baratïnski (1800-1844). Fyodor Tyutchev (1803-1873). Aleksey Koltsov (1809-1842). Mihail Lermontov (1814-1841). Afanasiy Fet (1820-1892). Nikolay Nekrasov (1821-1877). Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921). Vladislav Hodasevich (1886-1939). Osip Mandelshtam (1891-1938). Bulat Okudzhava (1924-1997). Program notes (various) -- French to English. Rémi Belleau (ca. 1528-1577). Henri de Régnier (1864-1936).

Here, collected for the first time in one volume, are Nabokov's English translations of Russian verse, presented next to the Russian originals, as well as three never-before-published poems written in English by Nabokov himself. Here, also, are some of his notes on the dangers and thrills of translation.


English and Russian in parallel translation.

ISBN: 0151012644 9780151012640

LCCN: 2008013726

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA898080 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 014691023 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Russian poetry.