Bollingen

1 primary work

Eugene Onegin,

by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Published 31 December 1946

Distinguished by James E. Falen s masterful use of contemporary American English and handling of rhyme and meter, this new translation of Alexander Pushkin s verse novel ably provides English readers with the chance to experience the work of the poet Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature.The introduction includes Falen s discussion of how his translation compares with those of his predecessors and a general analysis of the poem. Nearly one hundred notes annotate the text."