
Half-Light & Other Poems
Yevgeny Abramovitch Baratynsky(Author)
Arc Publications (Publisher)
Published on 1. August 2015
Book
Hardback
144 pages
978-1-908376-89-3 (ISBN)
Description
Half-Light & Other Poems brings together the most important and enduring poems by this neglected writer, one of Russia's great 19th century poets. In a new translation by Peter France, the philosophical, social and iterary struggles of Russia under Tsar Nicholas I are brought to vivid life in the verses of a man who felt profoundly and was highly skilled at expressing his emotions and beliefs in dazzling, often fantastical fashion.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Lancs
United Kingdom
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Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 144 mm
Weight
281 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-908376-89-3 (9781908376893)
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Yevgeny Abramovich Baratynsky was born in 1801 on the family property in the Tambov region of central Russia. After his father's death in 1810, he was given a place at the School of Pages, an elite boarding school in St Petersburg. His school days, in which he discovered a love for literature and the desire to be a poet, were cut short by an event that changed the course of his life. He and a classmate stole a substantial sum of money from another classmate's father; they were immediately found out, disgraced and expelled from the school. A career as an officer was now closed to Baratynsky, especially in view of the personal disfavour of the tsar. Even so, after a period of suicidal depression, he decided to attempt to rehabilitate himself by enlisting as a private soldier. In May 1825, after nine years of disgrace, and just a few months before the ill-fated December uprising against the newly crowned tsar Nicholas I, Baratynsky was finally pardoned and promoted to officer rank. His first volume of poetry was published in 1827, followed by a much larger collection in 1835. Then in 1842 came Half-Light, Baratynsky's most important work, a gathering of poems written since 1834. Baratynsky died in Italy on 11 July, 1844.
Content
Introduction; Half-light; To Prince Pyotr Andreevich Vyazemsky; The Last Poet; 'Prejudice? just a fragment'; Novinskoe; Signs; 'Always in purple and in gold'; 'Alas! poor average writer'; Stillborn; Alcibiades; A Grumble; To a Sage; 'Phyllis with each returning winter'; Goblet; 'I have known them, storms and bad weather'; 'Days! What's the use!'; Cliques; Achilles; 'Thought, when embodied first of all'; 'I am not yet ancient as a patriarch'; 'Fretful daytime pleases the multitude'; 'Greetings! sweet-tongued boy'; 'What sounds are these?'; 'Thought, yet more thought!'; Sculptor; Autumn; 'Blessed be he who speaks of what is sacred!'; Rhyme; Other Poems; An Admission; Tempest; Ultimate Death; 'My talent is pitiful'; 'What is the freedom of dreams to the prisoner'; 'Song heals the aching spirit'; 'Enchanted groves, I came to visit you'; Planting a Wood; Steamship