From the Sin-E Cafe to the Black Hills: Notes on the New Irish

Author/Contributor(s):	Wall, Eamonn
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Date:	02/07/2000
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Readers often have regarded with curiosity the creative life of the poet. In this study, David Bethea illustrates the relation between the art and life of 19th-century poet Alexander Pushkin, the central figure in Russian thought and culture. Bethea shows how Pushkin, on the eve of this 200th anniversary, still speaks to our time. He indicates how we, as modern readers, might realize the promethean metaphors central to the poet's intensely sculpted life. The Pushkin who emerges from Bethea's portrait is one who, long unknown to English-language readers, closely resembles the original both psychologically and artistically.