Selected Poems : Pasternak

Pasternak, Boris; Stallworthy, Jon (translator); France, Peter (translator)

ISBN 10: 0393018199 / ISBN 13: 9780393018196

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1983

About this Item

(1st US) Slightly smaller book, wine cloth, gilt lettering very fine on spine, 160 pages, covers slightly flared open. DJ beneath mylar, blood-red background, b/w photo of young Pasternak on front, praise on back from London Times, Times Literary Supplement, Publisher's Weekly. DJ has light wear to tips. Near Very Fine DJ/Near Very Good book.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Selected Poems : Pasternak
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393018199
• ISBN 13: 9780393018196
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: 1st US
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

Poems by the modern Russian author reflect his faith in love and life and examine ethical and religious themes

About the Authors

Peter France  has published widely on French, Russian, and comparative literature, including the Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation. New Directions publishes his translations of the Chuvash poet Gennady Aygi: Field-Russia and Child-And-Rose.

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (February, 1890 ― May, 1960) was a Nobel Prize-winning Soviet Russian poet and writer. In the West he is best known for the epic novel Doctor Zhivago, a tragedy, whose events span through the last period of Tsarist Russia and early days of Soviet Union. Pasternak was brought up in a highly cosmopolitan atmosphere, and visitors to his home included pianist and composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and writer Leo Tolstoy.


Jon Stallworthy (M.A. and B.Litt. Oxford) is Senior Research Fellow at Wolfson College of Oxford University, where he is an Emeritus Professor of English Literature. He is also former John Wendell Anderson Professor at Cornell, where he taught after a career at Oxford University Press. His biography of Wilfred Owen won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the W. H. Smith Literary Award, and the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His biography of Louis MacNeice won the Southern Arts Literary Prize. He is also the author of Rounding the Horn: Collected Poems and Singing School: The Making of a Poet, and editor of the definitive edition of Wilfred Owen’s poetry, The Complete Poems and Fragments; The Penguin Book of Love Poetry; The Oxford Book of War Poetry; and coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry. Stallworthy has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature.