After inheriting his uncle’s estate and moving to the country, he meets and befriends the young poet Vladimir Lensky. He is jaded, a bit lost, and has grown tired of concerts and partying. His rhyming scheme was innovative, you don’t name stanza forms after just anybody, and his story-telling and characterization went on to inspire generations of Russian writers.Įugene Onegin is a dandy, a Russian equivalent to someone you might find in an Oscar Wilde play. It’s a Russian classic, published serially over a period of seven years, and apparently Pushkin is thought of by many as the greatest poet to come out the country.
I read after listening to this that it’s the origin of the Onegin stanza (aBaBccDDeFFeGG), which did jostle some distant memory from English Lit class fifteen years ago, but otherwise I was completely unfamiliar with it. I didn’t know anything about the poem, but I will listen to anything narrated by Fry, so I decided to give it a try. Stephen Fry narrates the 1990 translation of Eugene Onegin, and it’s available to download for free. I can’t remember where I found the link, but I came across Fry Reads Onegin a while back and knew I had to download it. He died in 1837 from wounds sustained in a duel.Published: 1825–1832 (serialized), 1833 (single volume) His novel in verse, ""Eugene Onegin"", was published serially from 1825 to 1832.
During this time, he wrote ""Boris Godunov"", but it was not published until years later. Pushkin gradually turned to social reform and advocated literary radicalism, and he was eventually exiled to southern Russia. Born in Moscow in 1799, Alexander Pushkin was already a literary star by the time he graduated from the Imperial Lyceum in Tsarskoe Selo.
As a whole, these selections reveal Pushkin's development as a poet, but they also capture the wide range of subjects and styles in Pushkin's poetry. Renowned translator James Falen's collection of 167 of Pushkin's lyrics is arranged chronologically, beginning with verse written in the poet's teenage years - Pushkin published his first poem at fifteen and was widely revered by his later teens - and closing with lines composed shortly before his death. Included are many famous poems well known to, and often memorized by, every educated Russian, as well as lighter, more occasional pieces. 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.
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