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Love Poems Paperback – February 1, 2017

by Alexander Pushkin (Author), Roger Clarke (Editor, Translator)

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One of the many aspects of Alexander Pushkin's immense contribution to Russian language and literature, and perhaps the one he is most popular for, is his mastery of the love poem, a genre which he perfected like few others before or after him. This volume contains a selection of his most famous and enduring verse explorations of love, such as 'I Loved You', 'Night' and 'I Well Recall a Wondrous Meeting', pieces which are crowning achievements of the European canon and still have the same timeless emotional resonance today.

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ROGER CLARKE is best known as a film-writer for the Independent newspaper and more recently Sight & Sound. Inspired by a childhood spent in two haunted houses, Roger Clarke has spent much of his life trying to see a ghost. He was the youngest person ever to join the Society for Psychical Research in the 1980s and was getting his ghost stories published by The Pan & Fontana series of horror books at just 15, when Roald Dahl asked his agent to take him on as a client. He is the author of Ghosts: True Stories.

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February 1, 2017
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5.12 x 0.74 x 7.8 inches
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Alma Classics (February 1, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 184749689X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1847496898
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.12 x 0.74 x 7.8 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,500,464 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #234 in Russian & Soviet Poetry
- #419 in History & Criticism of Russian & Soviet Literature
- #1,634 in British & Irish Poetry

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Great translation!

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Plenty to muse on

Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2014

Pushkin's poetry is revered in Russia and always has been, yet he and his very considerable body of work have for the most part failed to gain a following in the English-speaking world. Unfamiliar names (Bakhchisaray anyone?),* Pushkin's propensity sometimes to offend 'polite' sensitivities, and the reading public having long ago lost its taste for Byronic verse have no doubt all played their part. However, as new translations such as this come forward, I increasingly feel an important part of Pushkin's neglect is that he has not in the past been well-served by his translators.

Roger Clarke's new, expanded edition of Love Poems is excellent, and will surely help to advance the Pushkin cause. It presents more than a hundred poems, but that is no more than a quarter of Pushkin's total output of short poems, so there are potentially three times as many still to come, plus the majority of the longer, narrative poems and fairy tales.

This book does pay some attention to a couple of the longer works; a substantial part of the Epilogue of The Fountain of Bakhchisaray is included, as is the whole Epilogue to Ruslan and Lydmila. But that's it from the more extended pieces, at least for the moment.

The translation and the finished English verses are first class. The English verse is mostly both rhymed and set to particular poetic meters, as was most of the Pushkin original. In his Editor's Note, Roger Clarke writes interestingly on those and related matters, and the problems they bring for the translator.

Besides the Editor's Note, there is a 4500-word potted biography of Pushkin. That, along with Notes and Commentary on the poems, helps place the poems in context (they are arranged chronologically within the book). However, the introduction warns against seeking too diligently for autobiographical aspects in the love poems, or for specific identification of Pushkin's dedicatees.

Pushkin is well capable of writing a poem comparing the object of his love to a rainbow, a rose and to spring water (Tуманский прав, когда так верно вас, translated here as Comparisons), also of bringing in metaphysical features (Ты видел деву на скале, A Storm), but some of his finest poems are intensely internal, as in Простишь ли мне ревнивые мечты (Jealous Love). In that poem, fluent, even fervent, expression of the conscious and unconscious workings of his own mind reveals an unusually well-developed self-knowledge. We see it again in Калмычке (For a Kalmyk Girl). With reference to the subject matter of that poem, it may be that almost nothing really happened. (At most, he and a girl he briefly observed at a post station, the early 19th century Russian equivalent of a truck stop, exchanged sheep's eyes for half an hour, even though he knew she would be a total misfit in St Petersburg or Moscow.) But it gave rise to a fine poem and much self-revelation. Pushkin concludes, in Roger Clarke's translation,

My friends, it surely makes no difference
whether you let your feelings range
in soirées, theatres, bright and smart,
or in a nomad's covered cart.

There's something to muse on, and in this book there is plenty more. Enjoy!

* To aid correct pronunciation, in this and his other recent published translations, Roger Clarke provides stress marks on multisyllabic proper nouns; e.g. Bakhchisaráy. Every little helps, as the advertising slogan has it.

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Sharon Braham.

Is what is says on the tin- Pushkin's Love Poems.

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Did what it said on the tin- Pushkin's Love Poems. If you are buying it you probably know who he is and are not, so to speak, buying blind.
The translations are not done by an app, they are the proper thing- I mention this because there are other books out there of Pushkin's poetry that read like gobbledygook.
Poems are very personal things, you will like/dislike/love, or hate, some or all of them according to taste.
One thing, Pushkin's style is very flowery and 18th century, apparently that's pretty much how a lot of Russian poetry was and is. I know because I read it in another book on Russian poetry, can't remember what exactly, perhaps someone out there in the Amazon review community can expand on that. But if flowery is not to your taste then best avoid.

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good read.

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As described

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I wanted to read Pushkin and this book offered me ...

Reviewed in India on November 13, 2016

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I wanted to read Pushkin and this book offered me what I coveted.The poems of Pushkin are translated in a lucid way, maintaining the poetic diction.The book contains a selection of his most famous poems.Moreover the binding is classic and splendid.

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