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- Title: Two Bards: Zhukovsky and Bowring (1) (Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky)
- Author : Germano-Slavica
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 183 KB
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A SHORT elegy with pronounced Ossianic overtones was written in 1811 by Russia's great poet-translator Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky and was published two years later in Vesmik Yevropy. The poem, Pevets ("The Singer" or "The Bard"), (2) which was noticed and discussed by Zhukovsky's poet contemporaries, (3) has recently been praised by a leading Soviet critic, Irina Semenko: "In his magnificent poem 'The Bard,'" she declares, "Zhukovsky took a ready-made subject and established a new standard for the poetry of Russian Sentimentalism." (4) Elsewhere Semenko has called the poem a "magnificent model of the poetry of Russian Sentimentalism" (velikolepnyy obrazets poezii russkogo sentimentalizma), (5) a judgement repeated by Mayya Yakovlevna Bessarab in her book Zhukovsky: Kniga o velikom russkom poete. (6) Pevets was selected for English translation in his second volume of Specimens of the Russian Poets (1823) (7) by the young scholar John Bowring, who, as Sir John, was to achieve distinction in his lifetime as a linguist, translator, hymn writer, Member of Parliament, lecturer, editor, and diplomat. In the opinion of the noted Soviet literary historian and comparatist Vasily Ivanovich Kuleshov, Bowring's two volumes form the best of the early nineteenth-century anthologies of translations of contemporary Russian literature into the Western European languages, and it was through Bowring's anthologies that such varied figures as Byron, Goethe, and Engels made or deepened their acquaintance with Russian literature. (8)