A. D. P. Briggs

A Celebration of Russia's Best-loved Writer

Alexander Pushkin

Andrew Barratt

The Rhetoric of Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time

A Wicked Irony

Tony. D. P. Briggs

A Tragedy

Vladimir Mayakovsky

This volume brings together for comparison three Russian narrative poems by authors who lived in different periods of modern Russian history, covering among their lifespans the whole of the 19th century and two decades of the 20th century. Numerous points of contact are seen to emerge, ranging from historical matters to a concurrence of ideas iterating the tragic nature of human life and destiny.

The Wild World

A Comparative Study of Pushkin's The Bronze Horseman, Nekrasov's Red-nosed Frost, and Blok's The Twelve

This is a lively and readable guide to Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse Eugene Onegin, a landmark of European Romanticism, and arguably the best of all Russian poetry. Professor Briggs addresses the question of how such remarkable poetry can have been composed about a rather banal plot, and considers the form of the work and its poetic techniques in detail. He offers fresh interpretations of the characters and events of the poem, and sets it against its European background. He discusses its influence - notably Tchaikovsky's operatic version - and points to its life-affirming philosophy and spirit of joyfulness. The book includes a chronological chart and a guide to further reading.

Alexander Pushkin: Eugene Onegin

Sensuous, passionate, erotic - a collection of poems on love through the ages

Poems on Love

Into a Towering Passion

Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Russias greatest poet Puskin led a short but turbulent life. His poetry tacklesthe great themes of the human condition: Love and sex nature and art the individual and social.

A clear, detailed and accessible account of all Pushkin's poetry

A. D. P. Briggs

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