Modern Russian Poetry: An Anthology

Read by Kevin W. Davidson

This volume...aims to present the lyrical poetry of Russian for the last hundred years by a selection of poems translated by the editors...The principle of selection was, so far as might be, aesthetic. Poems were chosen less for their representative quality than for their immediate worth, and of course, their ability to stand the test of translation. Represented authors are: Alexander Pushkin, Yevgeny Baratynsky, Alexey Koltzov, Mikhail Lermontov, Fyodor Tyuchev, Nikolai Nerasov, Alexy K. Tolstoy, Apollon Maikov, Afanasy Shenshin-Foeth, Yakov Polonsky, Vladimir Solovyov, N. Minsky, Dmitry Merezhanovsky, Fyodor Sologub, Zinaida Hippius, Konstantin Balmont, Valery Brusov, Ivan Bunin, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Yuris Balthrushaitis, Maximillian Voloshin, Mikhail Kuzmin, Georgy Chulkov, Alexander Blok, Andrey Bely, Vasily Bashkin, Sergey Gorodetzky, Anna Akhmatova, Igor Severyanin, Nikolai Kluyev, Lubov Stolitza, Sergei Yesenin, Z. Shishova, Piotr Oreshin, and Anatoly Marienhov. (Summary by Kevin Davidson, and the editors)

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queue_music Chapters 16

1 00 - Introduction 18:58
2 01 - Alexander Pushkin: A Nereid - Behold a Sower - Three Springs - The Prophet - Verses Written During a Sleepless Night - Work - Madonna 8:37
3 02 - Yevgeny Baratynsky: Prayer\ 11:09
4 03 - Fyodor Tyutchev: Twilight - As Ocean's Stream - Silentium - Autumn Evening - July 14, At Night - Oh, Thou, My Wizard Soul\ 10:16
5 04 - Alexey K. Tolstoy: My Little Almond Tree: - A Well and the Cherry Trees Swaying: - Oh, the Ricks\; Apollon Maikov: Art - Upon This Wild Headland - Summer Rain\; Afanasy Shenshin-Foeth: Whispers, Timid Breathing: - The Aerial City - Swallows 11:45
6 05 - Yakov Polonsky: The Cosmic Fabric - Sorrow's Madness\ 17:24
7 06 - Fyodor Solgub: The Amphora - The Dragon - When, Heaving on the Stormy Waters - Austere the Music of My Songs - The Devil's Swings\ 11:58
8 07 - Kinstantin Balmont: With My Fancy I Grasped - Centuries of Centuries Will Pass - In the White Land - Hymn to Fire 12:38
9 08 - Valery Brusov: The Tryst - Radiant Ranks of Seraphim - Benediction - Inevitability - The Fierce Birds - Eventide - Oh, Cover - Saint Sebastian - The Coming Huns 12:00
10 09 - Ivan Bunin: Russian Spring - A Song - The God of Noon - In an Empty House - Flax\ 15:54
11 10 - Yurgis Baltrushiatis: The Pendulum - The Surf\ 15:01
12 11 - Georgy Chulkov: Purple Autumn\ 18:33
13 12 - Andrey Bely: Messengers - Euthanasia - You Sit on the Bed There\ 15:05
14 13 - Igor Severyanin: And It Passed by the Sea-Shore - A Russian Song - Spring Apple-Tree\ 9:09
15 14 - Sergei Yesenin: Upon Green Hills - Hopes Painted by the Autumn Cold - In the Clear Cold - Transfiguration: III\; Z. Shishova: How Strange, Oh God 8:11
16 15 - Anatoly Marienhof: Savage, Nomad Hordes - October 3:51