Evgenii Evtushenko, Strofy veka [Verses of the Century]

Michael Pursglove (Independent Scholar - Europe)

Ed. by Andrei Rogatchevski, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.2.00: Post-1917 Writing and Culture in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 1917-present.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1995

Places

Russia (Country of Origin; Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Poem collection

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Verses of the Century

[Strofy veka], translated by one commentator as

Stanzas of the Era

, is an anthology of Russian verse, first published in English translation by Doubleday in the USA in 1993 under the title

Twentieth CenturyRussian poetry: silver and steel: an anthology

. It contained entries on 253 poets and examples of their verse, in English versions only, by such translators as Max Hayward, Vladimir Nabokov, Daniel Weissbort, George L. Kline. Stanley Kunitz, Michael Frayn, Elaine Feinstein and Albert C. Todd. The manuscript had to be smuggled out of the Soviet Union in suitcases, a task in which the French actress Marina Vlady and her husband, the singer-songwriter, Vladimir Vysotsky, were instrumental. In his preface Evtushenko acknowledges the help of several American Slavists…

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Citation: Pursglove, Michael. "Strofy veka". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 December 2022 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=40913, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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