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Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Russian-born poet, novelist, literary critic, translator, and essayist was awarded the National Medal for Literature for his life's work in 1973. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. He is the author of many works including Lolita, Pale Fire, Ada, and Speak, Memory.
CONTENTS
Introduction by Brian Boyd xix
I. NABOKOV ON TRANSLATION 1
The Art of Translation
(I: A Few Perfect Rules”) 2
Pity the Elderly Gray Translator 12
The Art of Translation
(II: A Kind of V Movement”) 14
On Translating Eugene Onegin” 16
One Day, Exuberant and Gallant 18
II. NABOKOV: VERSES AND VERSIONS 21
MIHAIL LOMONOSOV (17111765)
On Mihail Lomonosov 22
from??? ?? ?????? ????? 23
from The Hotinian Ode 23
from ??????? ??????????? ? ???????? 24
from A Brief Manual of Rhetoric 25
from ???? ‚??????, ??????????? ????? 26
from Peter the Great, a Heroic Poem 27
GAVRILA DERZHAVIN (17431816)
On Gavrila Derzhavin 29
???????? 32
Ive set up to myself a monument 33
NIKOLAY KARAMZIN (17661826)
On Nikolay Karamzin 34
from ?? ????????? 36
from Two Similes 37
VASILIY ZHUKOVSKI (17831852)
On Vasiliy Zhukovski 38
from ????? 40
from The Bard 41
from ??????? 42
from Svetlana 43
from Thekla (F. Schiller) 46
(You ask) where may I be 47
????? ? ???? ????? 48
Voice from Another World 49
from ? ???? 50
from To Goethe 51
Lord Ullins Daughter (Campbell) 52
???? ? ??? ???? 54
Oolleen and His Daughter 55
KONSTANTIN BATYUSHKOV (17871855)
On Konstantin Batyushkov 58
???? ?????????? ??????????? 60
Advice to an Epic Poet 61
?? ???????, ??? ?????? 62
Do you recall the cry 63
A later parody (Political) 63
VILGELM KYUHELBEKER (17971846)
On Vilgelm Kyuhelbeker 64
from ????? ??????? ?????? 66
from Destiny of Russian Poets 67
ANTON DELVIG (17981831)
On Anton Delvig 69
??????? 70
To Pushkin 71
ALEKSANDR PUSHKIN (17991837)
On Aleksandr Pushkin 72
from ????? ????????? 74
from To My Aristarch 75
from ?? (???????) 76
from The Dream 77
‚????????. ??? 78
Liberty: An Ode, 1817 79
From Notes to Volnost”/Liberty 86
from ? ™???????? 88
from To Shcherbinin 89
from ?????? ? ‹?????? 90
from Ruslan and Lyudmila 91
??????????? ????????? ???????? 92
from The Bosom Friend of Magic Ancientry 93
?????? 94
Little Bird 95
???? 96
The Demon 97
??????? ??????? ?????????? 98
A lonely sower of liberty 99
Of freedom eremitic sower 99
from
?????? ??????, ????? ?????? 100
from Eugene Onegin, Chapter I 101
?? ‚???????? 104
Epigram (On Vorontsov) 105
from ????? 106
from The Gypsies 107
? ‚????????? 110
To Vyazemski 111
«‚? ??????? ????????? ???» 112
Deep in Siberian mines 113
????? 114
The Angel 115
To Dawe, Esqr. 116
To Dawe, Esqr. 117
from ???????. ?????????? 118
Dedication to the Long Poem Poltava 119
????? 120
The Upas Tree 121
?? ???????? ? «
?????? ???????» ?
«??????? A????????» 124
On the Illustrations to Eugene Onegin
in the Nevski Almanac 125
‡????? ???? 126
Winter Morning 127
«? ??? ?????: ?????? ???, ???? ?????» 128
I worshipped you. My loves reluctant ember 129
Note on Ya vas lyubil” 130
I loved you: love, perhaps, is yet 131
Ya vas lyubíl: lyubóv eshchó, bït mózhet 132
I you loved: love yet, maybe 133
«?? ? ????? ???? ?????» 134
The Name 135
?? ????????? 136
Epigram 137
??? 138
The Work (Trud) 139
from ???? ? ??????? 140
from A Small House in Kolomna 141
from ??? P?????????? 142
from My Pedigree 143
from ????? ?????? (???? II) 144
A scene from The Covetous Knight 145
?????? ? ?????? 152
Mozart and Salieri 153
??? ?? ????? ???? 174
A Feast during the Plague 175
from ?????? ??????? 194
from The Bronze Horseman 195
«???? ??? ????, ????!» 196
Tis time, my dear, tis time 197
«‚ ??? ??????? ??????» 198
During my days of autumn leisure 199
«. . .‚???? ? ???????» 200
The Return of Pushkin 201
€? ?????????? 206
I value little those much-vaunted rights 207
from ??????????? ????? ????? 208
from The Pedigree of My Hero 209
«? ???????? ???? ???????
?????????????» 214
Exegi monumentum (No hands have
wrought my monument”) 215
Exegi monumentum (Ive set up to myself
a monument”) 216
EVGENIY BARATÏNSKI (18001844)
On Evgeniy Baratïnski 218
from ”???????? 220
from Finland 221
from ???? 222
from Feasts 223
«?????????? ?????????» 224
To His Wife 225
«?? ??? ??, ???!» 226
What use are ye, Days! 227
«‚?? ?????, ?? ?????!» 228
Ideas and nothing but ideas! 229
FYODOR TYUTCHEV (18031873)
On Fyodor Tyutchev 230
???? 232
Tears 233
‹????? ????? 234
Nightfall 235
Silentium 236
Silentium 237
«??? ?????? ? ???? ???????» 238
My soul would like to be a star 239
????????? 240
Appeasement 241
from ?????? 242
Blest is the mortal who has stayed 243
«????? ??????? ?? ??????. . .» 244
The Journey 245
The Journey 246
The crumbly sand is knee-high 247
????? 248
Through the azure haze of the night 249
?????? 250
Dusk 251
???? 252
Tears 253
«????? ???? ?? ????????? ??????» 254
The Abyss 255
????????? ?????? 256
Last Love 257
«
??? ? ????? ??????????????» 258
Autumn 259
«??? ?????? ?? ????» 260
She sat on the floor 261
«?????? ???? ??? ??????» 262
The sky is overcast 263
«??? ?????? ?? ??????» 264
[Russia] One cannot understand her with
the mind 265
ALEKSEY KOLTSOV (18091842)
On Aleksey Koltsov 266
«?? ?? ?????, ????????» 268
Why do you sleep, little peasant . . . ? 269
MIHAIL LERMONTOV (18141841)
On Mihail Lermontov 272
???? ? ?????? 278
The Sky and the Stars 279
????? 280
The Angel 281
†?????? 282
The Wish 283
from ? * 284
Farewell 285
????? 286
The Sail 287
????????????? 288
Thanksgiving 289
??????? 290
My Native Land 291
???? (€? ?????) 292
Imitation of Heine 293
??? 294
The Rock 295
?? 296
The Triple Dream 297
The Triple Dream 298
AFANASIY FET (18201892)
On Afanasiy Fet 300
«€?????? ??????» 302
When life is torture 303
Alter Ego 304
Alter Ego 305
‹??????? 306
The Swallow 307
NIKOLAY NEKRASOV (18211877)
On Nikolay Nekrasov 308
«?????? ????? ???????? ?? ?? ????» 310
A heavy cross is her allotted burden 311
«‚????? ?????? ?????» 312
As I hearken to the horrors of war 313
from ?????, ??????? ??? 314
from Red-Nosed Frost 315
???? (from ???? ?? ???? ???? ??????) 316
Russia (from Who Can Be Happy in Russia) 317
ALEKSANDR BLOK (18801921)
On Aleksandr Blok 320
?????????? 322
The Strange Lady 323
?????? 326
Again, as in my golden years 327
?? ???????? ?????? 328
The Railroad 329
from ???? ? ????? 332
All is disaster and loss 333
«???? ?? ???? ????, ?????? ? ??????????» 334
You were truer than others 335
VLADISLAV HODASEVICH (18861939)
On Vladislav Hodasevich 336
???????? 340
The Monkey 341
??????? 344
Orpheus 345
«?? ????, ?? ???? ????? ?? ?????» 348
Poem 349
from «?? ????? ?? ??????????????» 350
Years have from memory eroded 351
OSIP MANDELSHTAM (18911938)
On Osip Mandelshtam 352
«‡? ???????? ???????? ???????? ?????» 356
For the sake of the resonant valor of ages
to come 357
BULAT OKUDZHAVA (19241997)
On Bulat Okudzhava 359
?????????????? ?????? 362
Sentimentálnïy románs 364
A Sentimental Ballad 365
PROGRAM NOTES (VARIOUS)
Side I
Evgeniy Grebyonka
Dark Eyes (Óchi chyórnye) 367
Mihail Lermontov
«‚????? ???? ? ?? ??????» 368
I Come Out Alone upon the Highroad
(Vykhozhú odín ya na dorógu) 369
Nikolay Nekrasov
The Peddlers Box (Koróbushka) 370
Ivan Makarov
The Yoke-Bell (Kolokólchik) 371
Apollon Grigoriev
Two Guitars (Dve gitáry) 372
Mihail Matusovski
Moscow Countryside Evenings
(Podmoskóvnye vecherá) 373
Anonymous
Along the Petersburg Highway
(Vdol po Píterskoy) 374
Side II
Dmitriy Sadovnikov
Stenka Razin and the Princess
(Knyazhná) 375
Maria Konopnicka
As the King Went Forth to War
(Kak koról shyol na voynú) 376
Aleksandr Pushkin
For the Shores of Your Far Country
(Dlya beregóv otchízny dálnoy) 377
???? 378
Night (Noch) 379
Nestor Kukolnik
Doubt (Somnénie) 380
III. FRENCH TO ENGLISH
RÉMI BELLEAU (CA. 15281577)
from Avril 384
April 385
HENRI DE RÉGNIER (18641936)
Odelette 388
Passing of Youth 389
Notes 391
Permissions Acknowledgments 425
Index of Poets 427
???????? ???????? ? ?????? ????? 429
Index of Titles and First Lines 435