Pushkin's Lyric Intelligence

by Andrew Kahn

Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is Russia's greatest poet, a 'founding father' of modern Russian literature, and a major figure in world literature. His poetry and prose changed the course of Russian culture, and his works inspired operas by Musorgsky and Tchaikovsky (as well as Peter Shaffer's Amadeus). Ceaselessly experimental, he is the author of the greatest body of lyric poetry in the language; a remarkable novelist in verse, and a pioneer of Russian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199234744
• ISBN13: 9780199234745
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 392 Pages