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Writings from the Golden Age of Russian Poetry by Batyushkov, Konstantin; France, Peter is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Konstantin Batyushkov was one of the great poets of the Golden Age of Russian literature in the early nineteenth century. His verses, famous for their musicality, earned him the admiration of Aleksandr Pushkin and generations of Russian poets to come. In Writings from the Golden Age of Russian Poetry, Peter France interweaves Batyushkov's life and writings, presenting masterful new translations of his work with the compelling story of Batyushkov's career as a soldier, diplomat, and poet and his tragic decline into mental illness at the age of thirty-four. Little known among non-Russian readers, Batyushkov left a varied body of writing, both in verse and in prose, as well as memorable letters to friends. France nests a substantial selection of his sprightly epistles on love, friendship, and social life, his often tragic elegies, and extracts from his essays and letters within episodes of his remarkable life—particularly appropriate for a poet whose motto was "write...Konstantin Batyushkov was one of the great poets of the Golden Age of Russian literature in the early nineteenth century. His verses, famous for their musicality, earned him the admiration of Alexander Pushkin and gener
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- Author
- Batyushkov, Konstantin; France, Peter
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780231185400
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, Literary Collections, Literary Fiction