{"product_id":"pushkin-selected-verse-9781853991738","title":"Pushkin: Selected Verse","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Russian \u0026amp; Soviet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForty years after Pushkin's death, Dostoyevsky wrote: 'Everything we \u003cbr\u003ehave comes from Pushkin'. This is no exaggeration. When Pushkin started \u003cbr\u003ewriting, Russian poetry was either composed from the lofty, solemn \u003cbr\u003elanguage of the Old Church Slavonic, or from elements of French and \u003cbr\u003eGerman poetry, with a characteristic abundance of barbarism and cliché. \u003cbr\u003ePushkin cast aside the conventional poetic language of his time, \u003cbr\u003estripping it of pompous embellishments and incorporating into his work \u003cbr\u003eeveryday words and expressions that his predecessors had regarded as \u003cbr\u003evulgarisms. This transformation revitalised the Russian literary \u003cbr\u003elanguage and opened the way for a new generation of poets to experiment \u003cbr\u003efurther with new forms and subject matter. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book traces the \u003cbr\u003edevelopment of Pushkin's verse from the Romantic poetry of his youth to \u003cbr\u003ethe more mature and original style of his later works. With prose \u003cbr\u003etranslations at the foot of each page, John Fennell's selection is \u003cbr\u003edesigned to appeal to the general reader as well as the student of \u003cbr\u003eRussian language.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45085918232727,"sku":"9781853991738","price":4974.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781853991738.webp?v=1767265559","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/pushkin-selected-verse-9781853991738","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}