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# The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (Penguin Classics)

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## Customer Reviews

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    I assert that these are not very good translations. The biggest problem is that most of ...
  

*by L***E on Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2016*

I don't know much about russian poetry, but I do read a lot of American poetry (mostly contemporary, but I go backwards and, sometimes, forwards). In my capacity as a reader of American poetry in the 20th century, I assert that these are not very good translations. The biggest problem is that most of the poems are translated in meter, which to my ear trained in free verse, sounds like bombastic, miserable renditions of shel silverstein. This isn't to say that I don't love, respect, and adore Shel Silverstein. I do: what *sounds* like light verse is very appropriate to the subject of balloons, and monsters in closets, and grade school, but not so much for expressions of political or religious fervor. It sounds silly then, see.For example, this translation of Afanasy Fet"I come again with greetings new,to tell you day is well begun;to say that leaves are fresh with dewand dappled in the early sun"these are fine lines, but rhyme, to me, adds the wrong emphasis by forcibly conjoining new-dew and begun-sun. Both pairs of words make perfect sense, but also add nothing surprising. Without them, attention would naturally drop to the more interesting part of the poem: what kind of report is this? What kind of person needs a report of the weather? Why is the poetic project underlying a bureacratic report about the subject of spring? In other words, the rhyme is distracting, unsatisfying, and ultimately undermining.My friend who knows more about russian poetry than I do tells me that russian poetry was and is written in a regular meter. Perhaps the translators chose to translate these poems in meter for that reason. To me, however, that was the wrong rather than authentic choice.

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    Good food for thought
  

*by E***E on Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2017*

Good overview of the changes in Russian poetry. Very insightful about the Stalin and Khrushchev eras. Before reading this, read Zhivago's Children by Vladislav Zubok,  which provides insight to the socio -schizophrenic eras of the 1930s, 40s, 50s and during which Russian intelligentsia lived in an uncertain world that would reward them one day and confine them the next. That book provides a context in which this book can be understood.

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    Excellent Collection
  

*by C***S on Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2016*

Excellent anthology, a friend got me into Russian poetry and suggested that I get an anthology, so I went with Penguin Classics because its a good company. I have used this anthology many times in my college's poetry club and they love it. Highly reccomend for anyone who is interested in Russian poetry. My favorite poems were from the Soviet Era.

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