Exegi Monumentum

[June P. Farris]

Here’s one translation: http://poemsintranslation.blogspot.com/2013/10/pushkin-exegi-monumentum-from-russian.html


Tidings of me shall spread through all the realm of Rus
And every tribe in Her shall name me as they speak:
The haughty western Pole, the east's untamed Tungus,
North Finns and the south steppe's Kalmyk.

And long shall I a man dear to the people be
For how my kindling lyre bid kindly feelings grow.
For in my tyrant age I sang of liberty,
And mercy to the men laid low.


Here are several other translations: https://turcanin.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/exegi-monumentum-english/

And another site for the Deutsch translation: http://www.albionmich.com/inspiration/pushpoems2.html#exe


It is also included in English translation in the following:


·         The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader. Ed. by George Gibion. NY: Penguin, 1993.



·         After Pushkin: Versions of the Poems of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin by Contemporary Poets. (p. 94, Elaine Feinstein)
News of me then will cross the whole of Russia
And every tribe there will have heard my name
The Slavs, the Finns, and those in the wild Tungus,
The Kalmucks on the plain

And they will all love me, because my songs
Evoked some kindness in a cruel age,
Since I once begged for mercy to assuage
The wrongs of the downfallen


·         The Poems, Prose and Plays of Alexander Pushkin (p. 88, tr. by Babette Deutsch) “Unto Myself I Reared a Monument”

June Farris

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From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at listserv.ua.edu] On Behalf Of melanie moore
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2014 5:08 AM
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Subject: [SEELANGS] English translation of Pushkin verse

Dear SEELANGers,

The book I am translating at the moment includes a quotation from Pushkin's poem "Памятник". I wonder whether anyone knows of a recognized English translation. My Internet searches haven't been very helpful.

The lines I'm looking for are: «И долго буду тем любезен я народу... И друг степей калмык».

With thanks,
Melanie (Moore)


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