The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry

by Robert Chandler, Irina Mashinski, Boris Dralyuk

Book Overview

An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged, with Pushkin and his contemporaries ushering in the 'Golden Age' of Russian literature. Prose briefly gained the high ground in the second half of the nineteenth century,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141198303
• ISBN13: 9780141198309
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.7"