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'Walter Arndt of Dartmouth College has for many years been fashioning his own fine and exceedingly faithful renderings, almost always in the meter and rhyme scheme of the original poem... As soon as the reader gets into the swing of Mr. Arndt's versions - particularly those of Pushkin's longer poems - he loses any sense of artificiality and is carried along by the story and pace and dash with which it is recounted... One reason Mr. Arndt's versions are so good is that they do not draw attention, as more self-regarding translations have been apt to do, to the difficulty of the thing; they go with a swing that makes it easy to read them and draws us naturally into the narrative flow. Mr Arndt shows how much easier it is to read a narrative poem in verse equivalent than in the defeatest form of what is called a 'plain prose translation'.' --New York Times Book Review
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Edited and Translated by Walter Arndt. Alexander Puskin (1799-1837) was Russia's greatest poet, and for many years Walter Arndt has been recognized as one of the most important translators of his verse. This volume is the culmination of his work on Puskin's narrative and lyrical poetry. This essential volume contains 100 lyric poems, as well as 'Ruslan and Liudmila', 'The Gabriliad', 'Tsar Nikita and His Forty Daughters', 'The Fountain of Bakhchisaray', 'The Gypsies', 'The Bridegroom', 'Count Nulin', 'Poltava', 'Tsar Saltan', 'The Little House in Kolomna', 'The Golden Cockerel', The 'Bronze Horseman', and 'Onegin's Travels'.
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42 of 42 people found the following review helpful
An Excellent Translation
4 Oct 2000
Format:Paperback
After finding this book, I found it difficult to put down. Translating Russian poetry is a challenge indeed, and most translators will make mention of that, but Arndt does not. I have read the original Russian of most of these works, as well as several attempts (all unsuccessful) to translate Pushkin, and this is the first time that any person has been able to successfully render its depth and character in English. If you like good poetry, but can't read Russian, then this is the book you will want, and treasure for years to come.
22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Fantastic translation
9 Aug 2001
Format:Paperback
I've bought this book as a gift to my English-speaking friend and was very impressed with the translation. It is so close to the Russian original. I also like that the books includes fairly tales - excellent reading for kids.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Pushkin Rocks!
15 Jan 2006
Format:Paperback
I am a huge fan of Pushkin, and this is the best book of his poems! I got this for my birthday, and I read it all night it was so good! I love his poems, and some are even funny.
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