Lyrics. Volume 3 (1824-29)

The pioneer of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin has exerted through his novel in verse Eugene Onegin, his plays, his short stories and his narrative poetry a lasting influence well beyond the borders of his motherland. A slightly lesser-known, but by no means less important aspect of his writing is his vast production of shorter verse, a genre at which he excelled and arguably still remains unsurpassed.This volume, part of Alma`s series of the complete poetic works of Alexander Pushkin, collects the poems Pushkin wrote in his mid-to-late twenties, during his exile in Mikhбylovskoye and his subsequent return to metropolitan life. It includes some of his lyrical masterpieces, such as`To Anna Kern`and`I Loved You` arguably the two most famous love poems in the Russian language `To the Sea`,`Andrй Chйnier`,`The Prophet`,`Stanzas Addressed to Nicholas I`,`Deep in Siberian Mines`,`Arion`,`An Angel`,`The Talisman`,`Remembrance`,`A Flower`and`Anchбr, Tree of Poison`, each presented in a verse translation opposite the original Russian text. Enriched with notes, pictures and an appendix on Pushkin`s life and works, this will be essential reading for anyone wishing to explore the Russian bard`s genius.