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The essential poetry of Bohdan Ihor Antonych : ecstasies and elegies / translated from the Ukrainian by Michael M. Naydan ; with an introduction by Lidia Stefanowska.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Antonych, Bohdan-Ihor, 1909-1937.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. English. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Antonych, Bohdan-Ihor, 1909-1937--Translations into English.
- Antonych, Bohdan-Ihor.
- Ukrainian poetry--20th century--ations into English.
- Ukrainian poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (180 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lewisburg, Pa. : Bucknell University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The essential Poetry of Bohdan Ihor Antonych: Estasies and Elegies includes ninety-one of the best works of this great Modernist Ukrainian poet, who was born in the Lemko region of Poland and who died in 1937 at the age of twenty-eight. It includes selections from A Greeting to Life (1931), The Grand Harmony (1932-33), Three Rings (1934), The Book of the Lion (1936), The Green Gospel (1938), and Rotations (1938), as well as poetry published outside of collections. Over half of the translations are appearing in English for the first time. Scholars have compared Antonych to Walt Whitman, Dylan Thomas, T.S. Eliot, Rainer Marie Rilke, and Federico Garcia Lorca. Michael M. Naydan is Woskob Family Professor of Ukrainian Studies at The Pennsylvanina State University. Lidia Stefania is Senior Researcher at the Polish Academy of Sciences.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on the Translation Michael M. Naydan
- A Biographical Sketch of the Poet Michael M. Naydan
- Between Creation and the Apocalypse: the Poetry of Bohdan Ihor Antonych Lidia Stefanowska
- The Essential Poetry of Bohdan Ihor Antonych
- I From the Collection The Grand Harmony (1932-1933)
- MUSICA NOCTIS
- DE MORTE I
- ARS POETICA II, 1
- LIBER PEREGRINORUM 3
- II From the Collection Three Rings: Long Poems and Lyrics (1934)
- SELF-PORTRAIT
- THREE RINGS
- AN ELEGY ABOUT A SINGING DOOR
- AN ELEGY ABOUT THE KEYS TO LOVE
- AN ELEGY ABOUT THE RING OF A SONG
- THE WEDDING
- THE COUNTRY TAVERN
- TO THE WIND
- A LANDSCAPE FROM A WINDOW
- GOBLETS
- A PRINCE
- MAPLES
- THE VILLAGE
- CHRISTMAS
- KOLYADA
- THE GREEN GOSPEL
- PRIMORDIAL SUMMER
- THE SNAKE
- THE FOREST
- AN ELEGY ON THE RING OF NIGHT
- THE NIGHT
- A LATE HOUR
- MORNING
- THE ARROW
- BITTER WINE
- A BITTER NIGHT
- A NIGHT ON ST. GEORGE'S SQUARE
- III From the Collection The Book of the Lion (1936)
- THE SIGN OF THE LION
- DANIEL IN THE LION'S DEN
- BALLAD ABOUT THE PROPHET JONAH AN APOCRYPHA
- A SONG ABOUT THE LIGHT BEFORE TIME
- THE SAMARITAN WOMAN BY THE WELL
- SIX STROPHES OF MYSTICISM
- ROSES
- CARNATIONS
- PEONIES
- TULIPS
- VIOLETS
- A MONUMENTAL LANDSCAPE
- THE SQUARE OF ANGELS
- APOCALYPSE
- STARLION
- OR THE CONSTELLATION OF THE LION
- MAGICOPOLIS
- OR HOW MYTHS ARE BORN
- SANDS
- THE ROUND DANCE
- A SONG ON THE INDESTRUCTIBILITY OF MATTER
- PRAYER TO THE STARS
- RED TAFFETA
- THE TALE4 OF A BLACK REGIMENT
- IV From the Collection The Green Gospel (1938)
- AN INVITATION
- TO THE BEINGS FROM A GREEN STAR
- AN ECSTATIC EIGHT-STROPHE POEM
- THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE BIBLE
- TWO HEARTS
- A PORTRAIT OF A CARPENTER
- THE FAIR
- THE SIGN OF THE OAK
- DUET.
- THE GARDEN (A BIOLOGICAL POEM IN TWO VARIANTS)
- A BIRD CHERRY POEM
- A SERMON TO THE FISH
- CARP
- SPRING
- CHERRY TREES
- GOLDSEA
- THE FLEECE
- A PRAYER FOR THE SOULS OF DROWNED GIRLS
- AMBASSADORS OF THE NIGHT
- TO A PROUD PLANT, THAT IS, TO MYSELF
- THE LADY OF DIAMONDS
- THE HOME BEYOND A STAR
- V From the Collection Rotations (1938)
- ROTATIONS
- CITIES AND MUSES
- BALLAD OF THE ALLEY
- FOREVER
- A BALLAD ON AZURE DEATH
- THE BOTTOM OF SILENCE
- THE END OF THE WORLD
- THE CONCERT FROM MERCURY
- DEAD AUTOMOBILES
- TRUMPETS OF THE LAST DAY
- ENDING
- VI From Poetry Not Published in Collections
- A LVIV ELEGY
- GREEN FAITH
- A PRAYER
- VII From the Collection A Welcome to Life (1931)
- THE MAD FISH
- THE STRATOSPHERE
- THE BEE
- AUTUMN
- ABOUT A STROPHE
- AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- A WELCOME TO LIFE
- General Index
- Index of Poem Titles in English
- Index of Poem Titles in Latin and Ukrainian.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0-8387-5825-8
- OCLC:
- 748362423
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