qtd. in
White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004.
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Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
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Standard Name: Pushkin, Alexander Sergeevich
Used Form: Alexander Sergeevych Pushkin
Used Form: Alexandr Sergeevych Pushkin
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Carol Ann Duffy | In the same year CAD
's Poet to Prose-Writer, a version from Pushkin
, stood first of the six pieces by her among the translations, versions of and responses by British, Irish, and American... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ethel Wilson | An older half-sister of EW
's father, Hannah Waller Atkinson
, was equally accomplished, having lived for a time in St Petersburg with the pianist at the Imperial Palace. She would eventually translate Pushkin |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Gillian Slovo | The first part has an epigraph from Pushkin
about trackless snow; later parts are headed from other Russian writers such as Yevgeni Yevtushenko
and Anna Akhmatova
. Slovo's examination of the intersection of politics with... |
| Literary responses | Alice Walker | Reviews were mixed (one pronounced occasionally ponderous as well as poignant and personal). |
| Occupation | Anna Akhmatova | Deprived of poetry, no longer working at the Agronomy Institute
library, and banned from the bohemian life, Anna developed an interest in Aleksandr Sergeevych Pushkin's
works and in architecture; she also translated from French, Italian... |
| Textual Features | Mathilde Blind | MB
depicts Byron with her customary vigour and imaginative engagement: her introduction to the poetry volume is a blend of analysis and praise. She places him politically, as having in his veins an ancestral witches'... |
| Textual Features | Frances Cornford | The book includes translations of poems by Anna Akhmatova
, Ivan Krylov
, Mihail Lermontov
, and Alexander Pushkin
. Poems from the Russian. Translators Cornford, Frances and Esther Polianowsky Salaman, Faber and Faber, 1943. 5-6 |
| Textual Features | Bernardine Evaristo | An odd couple on holiday from England (Stanley Williams, his Jamaican immigrant parents' my-son-the-banker, and Jessie O'Donnell, a singer, a foundling raised by nuns in Leeds) drive haphazardly across Europe towards the Middle East... |
| Textual Production | Elaine Feinstein | |
| Textual Production | Elaine Feinstein | EF
followed her life of Pushkin
the following year with After Pushkin, an anthology of translations and imitations of his work, and responses to it, by contributors including Ted Hughes
, Seamus Heaney
,... |
| Textual Production | Anna Akhmatova | The year 1943 saw publication of her Selected Poems in Tashkent, which brought her recognition in Asia. Haight, Amanda. Anna Akhmatova : A Poetic Pilgrimage. Oxford University Press, 1976. 131 |
| Textual Production | Anna Akhmatova | AA
's name appeared in a number of literary anthologies such as Literaturnaya Moskva (Literary Moscow) and Poetry Day;her poems were published, too, in newspapers and journals. In the mid 1950s she was working... |
| Textual Production | Elaine Feinstein | EF
published Pushkin, a biography commissioned two years beforehand to precede the bicentenary of his birth (1999). Beer, Patricia. “Two Hares and a Priest”. London Review of Books, 13 May 1999, pp. 27-9. 27 |
Timeline
26 March 1820: Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin completed Ruslan...
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26 March 1820
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
completed Ruslan and Lyudmilla, a narrative, mock-epic, fairy-tale poem in six cantos.
Vickery, Walter N. Alexander Pushkin. Revised ed., Twayne, 1992.
28-9
May 1823-October 1831: Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin composed a novel...
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May 1823-October 1831
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
composed a novel in verse (of eight cantos), Eugene Onegin, which has been praised as his greatest and most sophisticated work.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
799
Weinstock, Herbert, and Wallace Brockway. The World of Opera: The Story of its Origins and the Lore of its Performance. Pantheon Books, 1962.
480-1
Vickery, Walter N. Alexander Pushkin. Revised ed., Twayne, 1992.
91
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
799
1825: Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin published his...
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1825
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
published his historical drama Boris Godunov.
Weinstock, Herbert, and Wallace Brockway. The World of Opera: The Story of its Origins and the Lore of its Performance. Pantheon Books, 1962.
283, 446
Vickery, Walter N. Alexander Pushkin. Revised ed., Twayne, 1992.
52
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
22 December 1836: Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin published his...
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22 December 1836
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
published his historical novel The Captain's Daughter, in The Contemporary.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Debreczeny, Paul. The Other Pushkin: A Study of Alexander Pushkin’s Prose Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1983.
253
Texts
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