Russkie Poety XIX Veka: Anthology for students - Softcover

Draitser, Prof Emil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 149295344X ISBN 13: 9781492953449

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

This anthology is a teaching aid for use in courses on Russian literature and culture of the 19th century for English-speaking students. It includes selected poems by Vassily Zhukovsky, Konstantin Batyushkov, Alexander Pushkin, Evgeny Baratynsky, Mikhail Lermontov, Fyodor Tyutchev, Afanasy Fet, and Nikolai Nekrasov. Each poet is introduced with a short biographical account. All poetical texts are supplied with stress-marks. Rare and difflcult words are translated. Cultural and historical background information is provided in footnotes. Editor and compiler of the book, Professor Emil Draitser, teaches Russian language and literature at Hunter College of the City University of New York.

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About the Author:

Emil Draitser is American author and scholar of Russian descent. Besides twelve books of artistic and scholarly prose, his essays and short stories have been published in the Los Angeles Times, Partisan Review, North American Review, and many other American and Canadian periodicals. His fiction has also appeared in Russian, Polish, and Israeli journals. A three-time recipient of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts fellowships in writing, he has also received numerous grants for writing both fiction and non-fiction from the City University of New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 149295344X
• ISBN 13: 9781492953449
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 146