Writings from the Golden Age of Russian Poetry / Konstantin Batyushkov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Batyushkov, Konstantin, author.

Contributor:

France, Peter.

Series:

Russian library (Columbia University. Press)

Russian Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russian poetry--19th century.

Russian poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Konstantin Batyushkov was one of the great poets of the Golden Age of Russian literature in the early nineteenth century. His verses, famous for their musicality, earned him the admiration of Alexander Pushkin and generations of Russian poets to come. In Writings from the Golden Age of Russian Poetry, Peter France interweaves Batyushkov's life and writings, presenting masterful new translations of his work with the compelling story of Batyushkov's career as a soldier, diplomat, and poet and his tragic decline into mental illness at the age of thirty-four. Little known among non-Russian readers, Batyushkov left a varied body of writing, both in verse and in prose, as well as memorable letters to friends. France nests a substantial selection of his sprightly epistles on love, friendship, and social life, his often tragic elegies, and extracts from his essays and letters within episodes of his remarkable life-particularly appropriate for a poet whose motto was "write as you live, and live as you write." Batyushkov's writing reflects the transition from the urbane sociability of the Enlightenment to the rebellious sensibility of Pushkin and Lermontov; it spans the Napoleonic Wars and the rapid social and literary change from Catherine the Great to Nicholas I. Presenting Batyushkov's poetry of feeling and wit alongside his troubled life, Writings from the Golden Age of Russian Poetry makes his verse accessible to English-speaking readers in a necessary exploration of this transitional moment for Russian literature.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

INTRODUCTION

1. VOLOGDA TO ST. PETERSBURG

2. WAR AND PEACE

3. THE CITY AND THE COUNTRY

4. BACK TO WAR

5. THE RETURN OF ODYSSEUS

6. ARZAMAS AND THE ESSAYS

7. TO ITALY

8. INTO THE DARK

NOTES

TRANSLATOR'S NOTE

INDEX OF TEXTS BY BATYUSHKOV CITED OR DISCUSSED

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jul 2018)

ISBN:

9780231546140

0231546149

OCLC:

1046606455