Anthology of Russian Literature : The Nineteenth Century

by Wiener, Leo

• ISBN13: 9780898753400
• ISBN10: 0898753406
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: University Press of the Pacific

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
A Sketch of Russian Literature in the Nineteenth Century	p. 1
The Nineteenth Century	p. 25
Karamzin (1766-1826)	p. 27
Letters of a Russian Traveller	p. 28
Tver	p. 28
On the French Tragedy	p. 30
On Shakspere	p. 31
London	p. 32
The Churchyard	p. 33
Poor Liza	p. 34
History of the Russian Empire. Introduction	p. 37
Krylov (1768-1844)	p. 41
The Ass and the Nightingale	p. 41
The Quartette	p. 43
Damian's Fishsoup	p. 44
The Swan, the Pike, and the Crab	p. 45
The Lion and the Wolf	p. 45
The Cloud	p. 46
The Shipwrecked Sailor and the Sea	p. 46
Izmaylov (1779-1831)	p. 46
The Drunkard's Vow	p. 47
The Canary and the Nightingale	p. 47
The Two Cats	p. 48
Naryezhny (1780-1825)	p. 49
The Two Ivans; or, The Passion for Litigation	p. 49
Zhukovski (1783-1852)	p. 54
Svyetlana	p. 55
The Minstrel in the Russian Camp	p. 63
Kozlov (1779-1840)	p. 67
Solitude	p. 68
Kiev	p. 69
The Black Monk	p. 70
Batyushkov (1787-1855)	p. 73
The Friend's Shadow	p. 73
The Dying Tasso	p. 75
Glinka (1788-1880)	p. 78
Moscow	p. 79
The Search for God	p. 80
Prince Vyazemski (1792-1878)	p. 81
The Samovar	p. 82
To My Three Absent Friends	p. 84
Death Reaps the Harvest of Life	p. 85
Rylyeev (1796-1826)	p. 86
Voynarovski	p. 87
Ivan Susanin	p. 88
Griboyedov (1795-1829)	p. 92
Intelligence Comes to Grief	p. 93
Bestuzhev (Marlinski) (1797-1837)	p. 102
Ammalat Bek	p. 102
Lazhechnikov (1794-1869)	p. 111
The Heretic	p. 112
Baron Delvig (1798-1831)	p. 120
Gloomy Thoughts	p. 120
Sang a little bird, and sang	p. 121
Ah, you night, you little night	p. 122
Pushkin (1799-1837)	p. 122
The Captain's Daughter	p. 125
Evgeni Onyegin. Tatyana's Letter	p. 131
The Bakhchisaray Fountain	p. 133
The Poison-Tree	p. 135
The Bird	p. 136
The Prophet	p. 137
The Talisman	p. 138
The Lay of the Wise Oleg	p. 139
To the Slanderers of Russia	p. 142
Boris Godunov	p. 143
Demons	p. 147
Baratynski (1800-1844)	p. 149
Finland	p. 150
Spring	p. 151
Truth	p. 151
Yazykov (1803-1846)	p. 152
The Sailor	p. 153
The Storm	p. 154
To the Poet	p. 155
Lermontov (1814-1841)	p. 155
A Hero of Our Times. Maksim Maksimych	p. 157
The Demon	p. 165
Dispute	p. 167
Alone I wander out along the road	p. 170
The Sail	p. 171
The Prayer	p. 171
The Branch of Palestine	p. 172
Remember'st thou the day when we	p. 173
At a Ball	p. 174
Dream	p. 175
Koltsov (1808-1842)	p. 176
First Love	p. 176
The Abundant Harvest	p. 177
The Forest	p. 179
Betrayed by a Bride	p. 181
The Mower	p. 182
Gogol (1809-1852)	p. 185
The Dnieper	p. 187
The Revizor	p. 188
Dead Souls. Mrs. Korobochka	p. 199
Byelinski (1811-1848)	p. 205
The Natural School	p. 206
Aksakov (1791-1859)	p. 216
The Family Chronicle	p. 217
Khomyakov (1804-1860)	p. 229
To My Children	p. 230
The Eagle	p. 231
Kiev	p. 232
Tyutchev (1803-1873)	p. 234
Scarce cooled from midday heat	p. 234
The Spring-Storm	p. 235
I suffer still from anguished longing	p. 235
Sunrise	p. 235
Gertsen (Herzen) (1812-1870)	p. 236
Slavophiles and Panslavism	p. 237
Ogarev (1813-1877)	p. 242
To Iskander	p. 242
Monologues	p. 244
The Village Watchman	p. 244
Count A. K. Tolstoy (1817-1875)	p. 245
Prince Serebryany	p. 246
The Death of Ivan the Terrible	p. 255
The Kurgan	p. 257
Goncharov (1812-1891)	p. 259
Oblomov	p. 260
Dobrolyubov (1836-1861)	p. 271
What is Oblomovism?	p. 272
Turgenev (1818-1883)	p. 280
Fathers and Sons	p. 282
Poems in Prose, Nature	p. 295
Grigorovich (1822-1900)	p. 296
The Fishermen	p. 297
Polonski (1820-1898)	p. 303
The Birds	p. 303
Night in the Crimea	p. 304
Love scared thee not	p. 305
Musician Grasshopper	p. 305
Pisemski (1820-1881)	p. 310
The Old Proprietress	p. 311
Shenshin (Fet) (1820-1892)	p. 319
When deeply musing in the silence of the night	p. 320
Every feeling at night to me becomes clearer and deeper	p. 320
Stay here awhile, 'tis good	p. 321
Night, thou art so blest with odours sweet and strong	p. 321
Tryst	p. 322
Dostoevski (1821-1881)	p. 322
Crime and Punishment	p. 323
A. N. Maykov (1821-1898)	p. 339
The Peris	p. 340
Who Was He?	p. 341
The Marble Faun	p. 342
Three Deaths. The Death of Seneca and of Lucius	p. 344
Nekrasov (1821-1877)	p. 347
Red-nosed Frost	p. 348
A Moral Man	p. 352
Who Lives in Russia Happily	p. 353
The Unmown Strip	p. 359
A Mother's Tears	p. 360
Nikitin (1824-1861)	p. 361
Burlak	p. 361
The Gaffer	p. 364
Pleshcheev (1825-1894)	p. 365
Forward	p. 366
My Country	p. 367
A Legend	p. 367
Spring	p. 368
Ostrovski (1823-1886)	p. 369
The Storm	p. 369
Saltykov (Shchedrin) (1826-1889)	p. 379
Beyond the Border	p. 380
Pisarev (1841-1868)	p. 385
Flowers of Harmless Humour	p. 386
Count L. N. Tolstoy (1828- )	p. 391
Anna Karenin	p. 392
War and Peace	p. 401
Uspenski (1840-1902)	p. 408
The Power of the Land. Ivan Petrov	p. 409
Levitov (1842-1877)	p. 417
Shoemaker Cock-of-the-Boots	p. 417
Zlatovratski (1845- )	p. 427
Old Shadows	p. 428
Korolenko (1853- )	p. 436
The Old Bell-ringer	p. 437
Garshin (1855-1888)	p. 443
The Which Was Not	p. 443
Potapenko (1856- )	p. 448
A Thousand Talents	p. 448
Nadson (1862-1887)	p. 457
My Friend, My Brother!	p. 458
Poetry	p. 458
Pity the stately cypress trees	p. 459
Chekhov (1860- )	p. 459
In the Court-room	p. 460
Pyeshkov (Gorki) (1871- )	p. 467
In the Steppe	p. 468
Merezhkovski (1865- )	p. 482
From an Essay on "Pushkin"	p. 483
Index	p. 495
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