Русские поэты XIX века: Антология для студентов

by Emil Draitser, Эмиль Дрейцер

This book is a textbook for a course in 19th century Russian poetry for non-Russian students. It includes the best verse of Russian poets from Zhukovsky to Nekrasov. The text opens with a brief survey of the development of Russian poetry during this period. Each poet is introduced with a brief biographical note. Difficult and rare words are glossed in the margins of the poems, accentuation is marked, and lines are numbered. The appendix contains a concise dictionary of literary terms and a glossary of the most difficult words in the Russian poetic vocabulary. The editor, E. Draitser, teaches Russian Language and Literature at Hunter College (CUNY, New York, NY).

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

An author and professor of Russian at Hunter College in NYC, a three-time recipient of fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, in addition to his twelve books, his work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Partisan Review, and the North American Review. "