Pushkin and Karamzin as historians

[Robert Chandler]

Dear Vadim and all,

I would, of course, have given more context if I had been asking for
thoughts about the content of my sentence.  Pushkin¹s achievement as a
historian is greater than most people realize.  He also contradicted
Karamzin more than most people realize.  For a serious discussion of all
this I highly recommend the articles by Chester Dunning and Caryl Emerson in
THE UNCENSORED BORIS GODUNOV, ed. Chester  Dunning, published by the Univ of
Wisconsin Press.  I found this book a revelation.

Best Wishes,

Robert


> Human wisdom is limited, stupidity isn't. The sentence is infested
> with a horrible grammar, there's no need to make any small corrections
> there - better to write something new, more informative. A propos,
> "Pushkin was" not a "Russia¹s first great historian" He was just a
> good pupil of Karamzin. VB
> 
> Quoting Robert Chandler <kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM>:
> 
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> I¹m curious to know how people react to the following sentence:
>> ³Pushkin was both Russia¹s greatest poet and its first great historian.²
>> 
>> It is by me, as changed, against my wishes, by one of my editors.  To my
>> ear, it grates horribly.  I would prefer Œher first great historian¹.
>> Apparently ³house style¹ favours ³gender-neutral pronouns².
>> 
>> Am I being silly, sentimental, old-fashioned, sexist...?  Does anyone else
>> feel strongly, either way, about this?
>> 
>> Best Wishes,
>> 
>> Robert
>> 
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