| | 1 | Author: | Ragozin, Zenide A. | Add | | | Title: | Pushkin and His Work  | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IT may be a long time yet before Russian poetry is anything more
than a word to the great bulk of the English-reading public, and
the name of Kalidâsa or Firdûsi would convey to the
average mind a far more definite impression than the name of
Maïkof, Polonsky or Nekràssof—because every one who is
at all on familiar terms with books has met at least the names of
the Hindoo and the Persian poet, while it is absolutely certain
that not one in a thousand habitual readers, or even students of
literature, ever comes across those of the Russians. Yet one name
there is, which has pierced through the barrier raised by race
difference and an exceedingly difficult language, and is at least
as familiar to English and American ears as those of the two
Orientals: the name of Pushkin, the centennial anniversary of whose
birth was celebrated last year all over Russia. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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