{"product_id":"pushkin-selected-verse-9781853991738","title":"Pushkin: Selected Verse","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForty years after Pushkin's death, Dostoyevsky wrote: 'Everything we  have comes from Pushkin'. This is no exaggeration. When Pushkin started  writing, Russian poetry was either composed from the lofty, solemn  language of the Old Church Slavonic, or from elements of French and  German poetry, with a characteristic abundance of barbarism and cliché.  Pushkin cast aside the conventional poetic language of his time,  stripping it of pompous embellishments and incorporating into his work  everyday words and expressions that his predecessors had regarded as  vulgarisms. This transformation revitalised the Russian literary  language and opened the way for a new generation of poets to experiment  further with new forms and subject matter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book traces the  development of Pushkin's verse from the Romantic poetry of his youth to  the more mature and original style of his later works. With prose  translations at the foot of each page, John Fennell's selection is  designed to appeal to the general reader as well as the student of  Russian language.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51864111186263,"sku":"9781853991738","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781853991738.jpg?v=1759921587","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pushkin-selected-verse-9781853991738","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}