Pushkin A Comparative Commentary [Paperback]

In this first critical assessment in English of Pushkin's writing, the author examines his achievement in relation to Russian literature and the European tradition.This digitally reprinted edition of Pushkin: A Comparative Commentary has the same content as the original 1971 edition. Professor Bayley, in this first critical assessment in English of the whole range of Pushkins writing, examines his achievement in relation to Russian literature and the European tradition, analysing Pushkins language in detail to illustrate how he obtains his literary effects.This digitally reprinted edition of Pushkin: A Comparative Commentary has the same content as the original 1971 edition. Professor Bayley, in this first critical assessment in English of the whole range of Pushkins writing, examines his achievement in relation to Russian literature and the European tradition, analysing Pushkins language in detail to illustrate how he obtains his literary effects.This digitally reprinted edition of Pushkin: A Comparative Commentary has the same content as the original 1971 edition. Professor Bayley, in this first critical assessment in English of the whole range of Pushkin's writing, examines his achievement in relation to Russian literature and the European tradition, analysing Pushkin's language in detail to illustrate how he obtains his literary effects.Foreword; 1. Introductory and biographical; 2. Early poems; 3. Poems of the south; 4. History and the heroic poem; 5. The drama; 6. Evgeny Onegin; 7. Prose; Bibliography; Index.