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Half-Light & Other Poems

Yevgeny Abramovitch Baratynsky

Translator Peter France

Publisher: Arc Publications

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Summary

Half-Light & Other Poems brings together the most important and enduring poems by this neglected writer, one of Russia's great 19th century poets. In a new translation by Peter France, the philosophical, social and iterary struggles of Russia under Tsar Nicholas I are brought to vivid life in the verses of a man who felt profoundly and was highly skilled at expressing his emotions and beliefs in dazzling, often fantastical fashion.
Available since: 02/27/2017.
Print length: 144 pages.

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