"Федор Тютчев. The Complete Poems of Tyutchev In An English Translation by F.Jude" - читать интересную книгу автора

the perpetual present of mankind, crowding it with an accumulation of life
and a living variety of human experience.
(Essays in Literature and Society. E. Muir)





THE AUTHOR
A freelance teacher in the north east of England, having taught myself
Russian I graduated from the University of Durham in 1972 with first class
honours, following this with doctoral research in the work of Tyutchev,
supervised by R. Lane. The research was never completed and I returned to it
some four years ago, one result being this book.
Early editions of selections of the poems appeared under the surname
"Murtagh", the name I was born with and which I have discarded for personal
reasons.
THE ILLUSTRATOR
Shaheen Razvi is a freelance artist living in Scotland. She has done
portraits, illustrated an Urdu text book and a multi-cultural collection of
nursery rhymes. She has also contributed a series of oil paintings on an
anti-racist theme to a major exhibition.
FOREWORD BY R. LANE TO THE 1983 EDITION
The poet Fyodor Tyutchev is known and appreciated by too few people
outside of Russia, and yet his position as second to Pushkin (arguably only
with the exception of Lermontov) has been acknowledged by generations of
Russian/Soviet writers and critics. The reading public had always cherished
his lyrics, although they did not always have sufficient access to them.
Tyutchev can teach much of value about both how to savour the beauty of
fleeting moments and how to face life's adversities with spirit.
It is precisely these qualities which have, I believe, been caught
admirably in Frank Murtagh's translations. They transmit faithfully the
feelings and the tone of the originals, sometimes with remarkable success. I
believe that he has tackled sensibly the dilemma of the equation facing all
translators of poetry - to what extent to reproduce the originals. It seems
inevitable that some of the rhymes and the other formal features must be
sacrificed to the need to reproduce the "feel" of Tyutchev's often amazing
lyrics. Frank Murtagh has trod this tightrope with great sureness and
Tyutchev's distinctive style remains largely unsacrificed. Because he has
known and loved the Master for so long, his translations have become
consonant with the original poems. In this way they fill a real lacuna. For
this collection is the first accurate translation in bulk by a British
author. Its only forerunner was Charles Tomlinson's slim volume of 1960.
This contained poems of great distinction by an eminent poet, but there was
more of Tomlinson in them than Tyutchev. What is more, Frank Murtagh has
translated more poems than any other author, several for the first time into
English, including some of the much neglected political pieces.
This book has been interestingly illustrated by Shaheen Razvi. Certain
of the illustrations do not present the poems in the way in which some
people might have visualised them, but they are nevertheless a bold break