Fyodor TyutchevHIS LIFE AND POETRY: BOOKS BY JOHN DEWEY
Russians have long recognised FYODOR TYUTCHEV (1803-1873) as one of the brightest stars in their literary firmament. For Dostoyevsky he was 'our great poet', for Turgenev (who published his first volume of verse) 'one of our most remarkable poets'. He was the favourite poet of Leo Tolstoy, who declared: 'One cannot live without him'. In the considered judgement of Afanasy Fet he was quite simply 'one of the greatest lyric poets ever to have existed on this earth'. According to Vladimir Nabokov, ‘his short lyrics belong to the greatest ever written in Russian’. Yet outside Russia Tyutchev's (or Tiutchev's) name remains curiously unknown. Available from Amazon: John Dewey's critically acclaimed books on Tyutchev offer a deep insight into the man and his poetry. Now back in print and available from Amazon: Mirror Of The Soul - A Life of the Poet Fyodor Tyutchev Also Available from Amazon: Yevgeny Zamyatin is best known for his novel We, a major influence on Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Zamyatin's dystopian vision of a totalitarian society of the future, written soon after the Revolution, brought him into disfavour with the ruling Communist Party and remained banned from publication in the Soviet Union until the late 1980s. Zamyatin's shorter stories and tales have tended to be overshadowed by his more famous novel. Yet these unduly neglected works are at the very least just as worthy of attention, revealing as they do a writer of great artistry and versatility. Their themes range from the traditional life of peasants and monastic communities under the tsars to satirical accounts of life in Britain inspired by Zamyatin's time there as a naval engineer in the First World War and depictions of the new post-revolutionary world encountered after his subsequent return to Russia. The stories in this collection have been chosen to reflect the breadth of Zamyatin's themes and prose style. All but one ('A Fisher of Men') are published here in English translation for the first time. Also Available (Free Download): Fyodor Tyutchev - Selected Poems Alexander Pushkin - The Bronze Horseman Pushkin's great narrative poem about Peter the Great's equestrian statue and the disastrous St Petersburg flood of 1824, translated with a Commentary and Notes by John Dewey. This verse translation was shortlisted for the John Dryden Translation Prize.
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