It is difficult to find a Russian person who doesn't know by heart at least one poem by Sergei Yesenin (1895-1925), whose distinctive lyricism and lush rural imagery have indelibly imprinted themselves into the Russian consciousness. Second in popularity among Russian speakers only to Alexander Pushkin, Yesenin has received surprisingly little attention abroad, where he is best known for his brief marriage to Isadora Duncan. This bilingual edition (original Russian side-by-side with translation by Anton Yakovlev) is an attempt to rectify the relative scarcity of Yesenin's English translations and to introduce English speakers to many of his most beloved and iconic poems.

The Last Poet of the Village: Selected Poems by Sergei Yesenin Translated by Anton Yakovlev

Literature & Fiction

Yesenin, Sergei

History & Criticism

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This collection contains 56 poems of the great Russian poet Sergei Yesenin translated into English. It includes an overview of the poet's art, from the earliest to some of his very last poems. "Farewell my friend, farewell; My dearest one, you're in my heart. The predetermined parting from above, Will reunite us later and we'll never part. Farewell, my friend, don't speak, don't shake my hand; Please don't despair and don't frown your brow. To perish in this life is nothing novel, Although to live, of course, is also nothing new."

Yesenin: The Selected

Poetry

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Sergey Yesenin was born in Konstantinovo in the Ryazan Province of the Russian Empire to a peasant family. He spent most of his childhood with his grandparents, who essentially reared him. He began to write poetry at the age of nine. In 1912, Esenin moved to Moscow, where he supported himself working as a proofreader in a printing company. The following year he enrolled in Moscow Shanyavsky University as an external student and studied there for a year and a half. His early poetry was inspired by Russian folklore. In 1915, he moved to Petrograd, where he became acquainted with fellow-poets Alexander Blok, Sergey Gorodetsky, Nikolai Klyuev and Andrei Bely and became well known in literary circles. Blok was especially helpful in promoting Yesenin's early career as a poet. Yesenin said that Bely gave him the meaning of form while Blok and Klyuev taught him lyricism. Check out our other books at www.dogstailbooks.co.uk

Collected Poems: Volume One (Russian Edition)

Sergey Yesenin was born in Konstantinovo in the Ryazan Province of the Russian Empire to a peasant family. He spent most of his childhood with his grandparents, who essentially reared him. He began to write poetry at the age of nine. In 1912, Yesenin moved to Moscow, where he supported himself working as a proofreader in a printing company. The following year he enrolled in Moscow Shanyavsky University as an external student and studied there for a year and a half. His early poetry was inspired by Russian folklore. In 1915, he moved to Petrograd, where he became acquainted with fellow-poets Alexander Blok, Sergey Gorodetsky, Nikolai Klyuev and Andrei Bely and became well known in literary circles. Blok was especially helpful in promoting Yesenin's early career as a poet. Yesenin said that Bely gave him the meaning of form while Blok and Klyuev taught him lyricism. Check out our other books at www.dogstailbooks.co.uk

Collected Poems: Volume Two (Russian Edition)

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The Last Poet of the Village: Selected Poems by Sergei Yesenin Translated by Anton Yakovlev

Yesenin: The Selected

Collected Poems: Volume One (Russian Edition)

Collected Poems: Volume Two (Russian Edition)