07/10/2024
Song of Hiawatha / Песнь о Гайавате
Иван Бунин опубликовал перевод «Песни о Гайавате» (The Song of Hiawatha) в 1896 г. Его перевод до сих пор считается непревзойдённым. – Summary by Mark Chulsky [chương_files]
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07/10/2024
Rain and Roses
One reviewer describes these poems as “dainty.” Each reflect a delicacy of feeling and sentiment of home, love and nature. Jeannette Fraser Henshall is also author of an earlier volume of poetry, “Star Dust.” – Summary by Larry Wilson [chương_files]
07/10/2024
Стихи (Poems)
Разносторонне талантливый Веневитинов умер в 21 год от пневмонии. «Душа разрывается,— писал князь Одоевский,— я плачу как ребенок». Пушкин пенял его друзьям: «Как вы допустили его умереть?» Его небольшое, но драгоценное наследие в виде стихов, прозы, пьесы, критики поместилось в один том. В этот проект включены только стихи. The source book presents the complete works, including prose, drama, and literary criticism of Venevitinov, who died of pneumonia at an age of 21. The best minds grieved passing of a youth of such exceptionally promising gifts. Only his poetry is targeted in this project. (Summary by Mark Chulsky) [chương_files]
07/10/2024
Farmer’s Bride (Version 2)
A powerful collection of short poems published in 1921 by the English poet Charlotte Mew (1869–1928). Lauded during her lifetime by luminaries such as Thomas Hardy, Siegfried Sassoon and Virginia Woolf, her extreme antipathy towards self-promotion and her deep desire for privacy resulted in her work never achieving the profile that it deserved. – Summary by Michael Maggs [chương_files]
07/10/2024
Astrophil and Stella (Version 2)
Astrophil and Stella is a sequence of sonnets and songs written by Sir Philip Sidney, the Elizabethan poet, courtier and soldier. It details the frustrated love of Astrophil (whose name means “star-lover”) for his beloved Stella (whose name means “star”). The first of the famous English sonnet sequences, Astrophel and Stella influenced later writers like Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare. In it, Sidney partially nativised the key features of his Italian model, Petrarch, which served to free the English sonnet from the strict rhyming requirements of the Italian form. – Summary by Alan Mapstone [chương_files]
07/10/2024
Brook – Break, Break, Break – Sweet and Low – and The Eagle
This is Tennyson at his best. This is Tennyson, the master poet at his most descriptive, his most insightful, his most enlightening. This set of four poems has been carefully selected to depict life and life journeys – journeys that encompass timelessness and tragedy, fragility and hope – in ways that illuminate the constant cloud of wonder surrounding the ephemeral quality of existence. These are four magnificent poems that speak of life, its tragedies, its loneliness, its dangers and its brevity in a superb juxtaposition with the enduring and unchanging character of the natural world. This unchanging character is illustrated by the endlessness of the flowing water of a brook, the ability of the “Wind of the western sea” to unite a family, or indeed the solace of callous indifference the sea can provide to someone experiencing a tragedy. These are poems that depict relationships between mankind and the natural world in contrast but also in a marked and intricate interdependency. The essential theme of this collection – the permanence of nature over the transience of mankind’s corporeal reality – is best summarized by Tennyson’s memorable lines from “The Brook”: “For men may come and men may go / But I go on for ever.” – Summary by Bruce Kachuk [chương_files]
07/10/2024
Poems of Schiller – 1st Period
Poems by the German Classical poet Friedrich von Schiller from his first period (until 1785) in English translations by Edgar A. Bowring et al, including a verse drama of the Classical story of Semele and Zeus. – Summary by Alan Mapstone Cast list for “Semele”: Juno: Krista Zaleski Semele, Princess of Thebes: Jenn Broda Zeus: Larry Wilson Mercury: Sonia Stage Directions: Alan Mapstone [chương_files]
06/10/2024
Раковина (The Conch)
«Раковина» – главный сборник стихотворений Георгия Шенгели, демонстрирующий отточенную технику и литературную эрудицию. С середины 1930-х годов Шенгели оригинальных стихов практически не публиковал, но занимался переводческой и организаторской деятельностью, стиховедением. В 1933-41 гг. работал редактором в Гослитиздате, где давал работу поэтам, лишённым возможности публиковаться и вынужденным «кормиться» переводами. “The Conch” is the main collection of Shengeli’s poetry; it demonstrates fine technique and erudition. In the mid-1930s Shengeli stopped writing poetry and turned to translations and theory of poetics. In 1933-41 he worked as an editor at the State Publishing House and provided translation opportunities to the Soviet poets who were denied other means of literary livelihood. (Summary by Mark Chulsky) [chương_files]
06/10/2024
Лампада
“The Lantern” is one of the earlier books of poetry by Georgy Ivanov (1894 – 1958), a leading poet and essayist of the Russian emigration. (Mark Chulsky) Георгий Иванов (1894-1958), многосторонний русский литератор, oдин из крупнейших поэтов русской эмиграции. “Лампада” считается четвертым сборником его стихов. [chương_files]
06/10/2024
Стихотворения П. Верлена в переводе В. Брюсова
The original book includes a selection of poems from several books, a critical/bio essay, and a bibliography. Only the poems are narrated for this audio version. В книге напечатаны переводы избранных стихов из дюжины книг Верлена, критико-биографический очерк и библиография. Только стихи включены в эту аудио версию. (Mark Chulsky) [chương_files]