Pushkin on Literature

Pushkin on Literature approaches Pushkin's literary accomplishment from a unique perspective: it focuses on Pushkin the critic, and on his passionate enthusiasm, volatile judgments, joy, frustration, and fascination with the literary world that surrounded him. This is the only English-language edition of the complete set of Pushkin's critical writing, both on his own work and on the wide range of European literature--Byron, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Milton--which he read and studied, and which so profoundly influenced his own writing.

"An Aladdin's cave of fascinating information." --Times Literary Supplement

"The scattered comments in prose in this book add up to an ars poetica that, like [Pushkin's] poetry, is sophisticated and unpretentious, and far from simple." --New York Review of Books