Binyon's _Pushkin_?

[michael.pushkin]

Dear All,

I would just like to draw your attention to the fact that Tim Binyon died on
7 October, aged 68. Obituary in The Independent, Wed 13 October 2004:

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=571525

Mike Pushkin (ne potomok)
CREES
University of Birmingham
UK

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexandra Ioannidou" <alerosa at HOL.GR>
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Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Binyon's _Pushkin_?


> I have read it and I do not share your opinion. I found the work splendid,
> whereas I believe that the distinction between man and poet wasn't anyway
> clear particularly in 19th century Russia. Additionally I think that the
> deacades lasting perception of Pushkin as THE country's national poet both
> in pre-revolutionary and in soviet time did not allow us a modest view on
> his life. This, I think, is one of the biggest earnings out of reading
this
> book - the poet as a boheme of his time and not as the always
misunderstood
> genie and at last the assasinated martyr of Russia.(This perception lasts
> since Lermontov!) I could write more about it, but don't forget also one
> detail: Usually we read a poet's biography after we have read her/his
poetry
> or because we have read her/his poetry. Also: Why should we seek the
> arguments for reading a work of literature in an author's/poet's
biography?
> Alexandra Ioannidou
> University of Macedonia
> Thessaloniki, Greece
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "pjs" <pscotto at MTHOLYOKE.EDU>
> To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 10:24 PM
> Subject: [SEELANGS] Binyon's _Pushkin_?
>
>
> > Has anybody out there read Binyon's _Pushkin_? Seems to me he's done a
> > fantastic job sorting out the facts (as it were) of Pushkin's "as a
> > man," but having read it through, I got no idea of his life "as a poet".
> > (If you will allow me to make those distinctions.) By the end I had no
> > idea of why anyone would even want to read Pushkin, and felt throughly
> > beaten down.
> >
> > Just an idle question.
> >
> > Peter Scotto
> > Mount Holyoke College
> >
>
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