Kobzar of the Ukraine

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

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Authors: Taras Shevchenko In Year : 1922

Book Language: English

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Introduction
The Monk
The Cossacks
Hamaleia
Kobzars
The Night of Taras
The Forming of a Life
Naimechka; or The Servant
A Father’s Legacy
Caucasus
To the Circassians
To the Rich and Great
To the Master
Again Addressing the Circassians
To Jacques De Balmont
The Meaning of Serfdom
To the Dead
Freedom and Friends
A Dream
A Triumphal March
The Bondwoman’s Dream
To the Makers of Sentimental Idyls
Autocrat Versus Poet
A Poem of Exile
Siberian Exile
Memories of Freedom
Memories of Exile
Death of the Soul
Hymn of Exile
Returning Home
On the 11th Psalm
Prayers
Mighty Wind
The Water Fairy
Hymn of the Nuns
To the Goddess of Fame
Iconoclasm
My Testament

In these poems speaks the struggling soul of a downtrodden people. To our western folk, reared in happier surroundings there is a bitter tang about some of them, somewhat like the taste of olives, to which one must grow accustomed . The Slavonic temperament, too, is given to melancholy and seems to dwell congenially in an atmosphere misty with tears. But he gravely misreads their literature who fails to perceive the grim resolve beneath the sorrow. In the struggle of the Ukrainians for freedom the spirit of this poet, who was born a serf, remains ever their guiding star. The translator of these poems spent considerable time in arriving at an understanding of the spirit of the poems and the nature of the situations described. Then the more formidable task was approached of trying to carry over not only the thought but something of the style, spirit and music of the original into the English tongue. - Summary by Introduction