Modern Russian poetry: Texts and Translations

Modern Russian poetry: Texts and Translations

Author: Selver, Paul, 1888-1970, ed., tr.

Year: 1917

London; New York: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd.; E. P. Dutton & Co., 1917. — 88 p. This book forms the Russian section of a more extensive Slavonic anthology which has been in progress for some years, and, as far as it has been completed, includes representative selections from the modern poetry of the Poles, Czechs, and Serbs. The disadvantages associated with all anthologies are increased in the case of an anthology of translated verse, where the choice of the contents is affected not only by the translator’s personal leanings, but also by the suitability of any particular poem for translation into another language. As regards the present volume, it is admittedly the merest outline, to be filled in later, as circumstances may permit. But it is hoped that this collection, in spite of such obvious shortcomings as have been indicated, will convey a fairly adequate idea of the chief features in modern Russian poetry, a branch of Russian literature which has so far received very little serious attention in this country. Contents Preface Introduction K. D. Balmont Water My Song-Craft I Am Choiceness of Russian Life’S Behest The Reeds I Came into This World The Light Will Burn