I believe that he has tackled sensibly the dilemma of the equation facing all translators of poetry - to what extent to reproduce the originals. They transmit faithfully the feelings and the tone of the originals, sometimes with remarkable success. It is precisely these qualities which have, I believe, been caught admirably in Frank Jude's translations. Tyutchev can teach much of value about both how to savour the beauty of fleeting moments and how to face life's adversities with spirit. The reading public had always cherished his lyrics, although they did not always have sufficient access to them. LaneįOREWORD TO THIS EDITION The poet Fyodor Tyutchev is known and appreciated by too few people outside of Russia, and yet his position as second to Pushkin (arguably only with the exception of Lermontov) has been acknowledged by generations of Russian/Soviet writers and critics. She has also contributed a series of oil paintings on an anti-racist theme to a major exhibition.įOREWORD BY R. She has done portraits, illustrated an Urdu text book and a multi-cultural collection of nursery rhymes. THE ILLUSTRATOR Shaheen Razvi is a freelance artist living in Scotland. The research was never completed and I returned to it some four years ago, one result being this book. THE AUTHOR A freelance teacher in the north east of England, having taught myself Russian I graduated from the University of Durham in 1972 with first class honours, following this with doctoral research in the work of Tyutchev, supervised by R. Ancient or modern, they live in the perpetual present of mankind, crowding it with an accumulation of life and a living variety of human experience. the great figures in imaginative literature are perpetually contemporary. Whence this disharmony? How did it arise? In the general chorus, why this solo refrain? Why do our souls not sing like the sea and why must the thinking reed complain? (The sea is harmony. Only our spectral liberty imparts a sense of dissonance. Imperturbable form is the outward sign of nature's utter consonance. Lane of the University of Durham for sharing with me his great expertise and for his encouragement.
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