Anthology of Russian literature from the earliest period to the present time, volume 1 (of 2) : $b From the tenth century to the close of the eighteenth centuryWiener, Leo
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Anthology of Russian literature from the earliest period to the present time, volume 1 (of 2) : $b From the tenth century to the close of the eighteenth century
Wiener, Leo
Russia -- Literary collections; Russian literature -- Translations into English
Since the eighties there have appeared a number of translations from
good foreign authors bearing on Russian Literature: Ernest Dupuy,
_The Great Masters of Russian Literature in the Nineteenth Century_,
translated by N. H. Dole, New York [1886]; E. M. de Vogüé, _The Russian
Novelists_, translated by J. L. Edmands, Boston [1887]; Dr. George
Brandes, _Impressions of Russia_, translated by S. C. Eastman, New
York, 1889; E. P. Bazán, _Russia: Its People and its Literature_,
translated by F. H. Gardiner, Chicago, 1890.
The following more or less original works will be found useful: W.
R. Morfill, _Slavonic Literature_, London, 1883, and _The Story of
Russia_, New York and London, 1890; also his _The Peasant Poets of
Russia_ (Reprint from Westminster Review), London, 1880; C. E. Turner,
_Studies in Russian Literature_, London, 1882, and before, in Fraser’s
Magazine for 1877; Ivan Panin, _Lectures in Russian Literature_, New
York and London, 1889; _Memorials of a Short Life: A Biographical
Sketch of W. F. A. Gaussen_ (chapter on _The Russian People and their
Literature_), London, 1895; Prince Serge Wolkonsky, _Pictures of
Russian History and Russian Literature_ (Lowell Lectures), Boston,
New York and London, 1897; K. Waliszewski, _A History of Russian
Literature_, New York, 1900, but this work must be used with extreme
caution, on account of the many inaccuracies it contains. W. M.
Griswold’s _Tales Dealing with Life in Russia_, Cambridge, 1892, is
a fair bibliography of all the prose translations that have appeared
in the English language before 1892. But few anthologies have of
late seen daylight: C. T. Wilson, _Russian Lyrics in English Verse_,
London, 1887; John Pollen, _Rhymes from the Russian_, London, 1891
(a good little book); E. L. Voynich, _The Humour of Russia_, London
and New York, 1895. The periodical “Free Russia,” published in London
since 1890, contains some good translations from various writers
and occasionally some literary essay; but the most useful periodic
publication is “The Anglo-Russian Literary Society,” published in
London since 1892, and containing valuable information on literary
subjects, especially modern, and a series of good translations
from contemporary poets. Nor must one overlook the articles in the
encyclopedias, of which those in Johnson’s Cyclopedia are especially
good.
Very exhaustive statements of the modern literary movement in Russia
appear from year to year in the Athenæum. More or less good articles
on modern literature, mainly the novel, have appeared since 1880
in the following volumes of the periodical press: Academy, xxi and
xxiii; Bookman, viii; Chautauquan, viii and xxii; Critic, iii; Current
Literature, xxii; Dial, xx; Eclectic Magazine, cxv; Forum, xxviii;
Leisure Hours, ccccxxv; Lippincott’s, lviii; Literature, i; Living
Age, clxxxv; Nation, lxv; Public Opinion, xx; Publisher’s Weekly, liv;
Temple Bar, lxxxix.
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