After Pushkin (Poetry Pleiade) - Softcover

How do you convince the English-speaking public that Pushkin's genius is as great as the Russians claim? This was the starting point for this collection of translations, versions of and responses to the poetry of Alexander Pushkin. The collection includes among its contribution; Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Carol Ann Duffy, Eavan Boland, Edwin Morgan, Elaine Feinstein, Danny Abse, Allen Curnow and many others. Published in collaboration with the Folio Society, this volume is an introduction to one of the finest of all Russian poets through some of the finest contemporary British and English poets.