Help identifying a translation

Emily Johnson emilydjohnson at OU.EDU
Mon Jun 1 15:08:06 UTC 2009


Thank you!  Those are excellent tips.  Sincerely, Emily

Dr. Emily Johnson
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University of Oklahoma
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On Jun 1, 2009, at 5:39 PM, Robert A. Rothstein wrote:

> Emily Johnson wrote:
>> Can anyone help me to identify to translator who created what appears
>> now to be the standard Russian-language version of the following
>> citation from
>> Byron’s, “Fare Thee Well”:
>>
>> "Proshchai, proshchai, i esli--
>> navsegda, to navsegda proshchai!
>>
> According to the note to the Kozlov translation in "Mastera russkogo
> stikhotvornogo perevoda" (Biblioteka poeta, Bol'shaia seriia, 1968)  
> the
> poem was also translated by N. Spiglazov, Aleko and T. Gnedich.  
> Pursuing
> the matter further, I discovered that Spiglazov's translation was
> published in "Sovremennik" 1849 (or earlier? - in any case not too  
> long
> before an 1850 "Sovremennik" article by Nekrasov about "Russkie
> vtorostepennye poety"), otd. VI, s. 139. "Aleko" was the pseudonym  
> of A.
> I. Stronin, who published a collection of Byron translations under the
> title "Bairon v perevodakh Aleko" in 1886. T. Gnedich was Tat'iana
> Grigor'evna Gnedich (1907-1976).
>
> Bob Rothstein
>
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