Eugene Onegin: A Romance of Russian Life in Verse (Alexander Pushkin - Eugene Onegin) - Softcover

Pushkin, Aleksandr

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9781539701439: Eugene Onegin: A Romance of Russian Life in Verse (Alexander Pushkin - Eugene Onegin)

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Eugene Onegin A Romance of Russian Life in Verse Aleksandr Pushkin Translated by Henry Spalding Eugene Oneguine, the chief poetical work of Russia’s greatest poet, having been translated into all the principal languages of Europe except our own, I hope that this version may prove an acceptable contribution to literature. Tastes are various in matters of poetry, but the present work possesses a more solid claim to attention in the series of faithful pictures it offers of Russian life and manners. If these be compared with Mr. Wallace’s book on Russia, it will be seen that social life in that empire still preserves many of the characteristics which distinguished it half a century ago — the period of the first publication of the latter cantos of this poem. Many references will be found in it to our own country and its literature. Russian poets have carefully plagiarized the English — notably Joukovski. Pushkin, however, was no plagiarist, though undoubtedly his mind was greatly influenced by the genius of Byron — more especially in the earliest part of his career. Indeed, as will be remarked in the following pages, he scarcely makes an effort to disguise this fact.

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