Alexander Blok: as Man and Poet

by Korney Chukovsky, Diana Lewis Burgin (Translator), Katherine Tiernan O'Connor (Translator)

Contents -
Part 1: Blok as Man
Part 2: Blok as Poet
- The First Book of Verse
- The Second Book of Verse
- The Third Book of Verse
- "The Twelve"
Appendix
Notes

Genres: Biography

156 pages, Hardcover

Published June 1, 1982

About the author

Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky (Russian: Корней Иванович Чуковский) was one of the most popular children's poets in the Russian language. His catchy rhythms, inventive rhymes and absurd characters have invited comparisons with the American children's author Dr. Seuss. Chukovsky's poems Tarakanishche ("The Monster Cockroach"), Krokodil ("The Crocodile"), Telefon ("The Telephone") and Moydodyr ("Wash-'em-Clean") have been favorites with many generations of Russophone children. Lines from his poems, in particular Telefon, have become universal catch-phrases in the Russian media and everyday conversation. He adapted the Doctor Dolittle stories into a book-length Russian poem as Doktor Aybolit ("Dr. Ow-It-Hurts"), and translated a substantial portion of the Mother Goose canon into Russian as Angliyskiye Narodnyye Pesenki ("English Folk Rhymes"). He was also an influential literary critic and essayist. (from: wikipedia)

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