Penguin Book of Russian Poetry

Robert Chandler (Editor, Notes by); Boris Dralyuk (Editor, Notes by); Irina Mashinski (Editor)

An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski   In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged, with Pushkin and his contemporari...

Metamorphoses: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Ovid

The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years,Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and sexual violence in Ovid's classic. A Penguin Classic Ovid's Metamorphoses is an epic poem, but one that upturns...