num_pages: 206
description: It is most fitting that Northwestern University Press long a leading publisher of Russian literature in translation launches the Northwestern World Classics series with a new translation of Russia's greatest poet. Included are many famous poems well known to and often memorized by every educated Russian as well as lighter more occasional pieces. Renowned translator James Falens collection of 167 of Pushkins lyrics is arranged chronologically beginning with verse written in the poets teenage yearsPushkin published his first poem at fifteen and was widely revered by his later teensand closing with lines composed shortly before his death. As a whole these selections reveal Pushkin's development as a poet but they also capture the wide range of subjects and styles in Pushkins poetry.
language: English
title: Selected Lyric Poetry
publisher: Northwestern University Press