Word: yevtushenko
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...TIME'S assessment of Yevtushenko as a poet [Dec. 2] agrees with mine: no nightingale. Perhaps catbird or magpie...
...even here, Yevtushenko finally...
...Dream. For those who miss the fun and electricity of Yevtushenko's performances, the new collection of his poems will have to suffice. It will be something of a disappointment. Yevtushenko is badly served by his translator, Herbert Marshall, professor of communications at Southern Illinois University. The book abounds with atrocities and dud rhymes-"trees-industries," "linger-lingo," "see-literacy" -that are enough to destroy any kind of communication...
...something of what must be Yevtushenko's great quality in his native tongue comes through in at least one poem in the Marshall translation, his uncompleted "epic" composition, Brat-sky GES (Bratsk State Hydroelectric Power Station). There is special pleasure in these episodes where the original metrical scheme does not call for rhymes above and beyond the call of the English language, and where...
...Yevtushenko either forgets politics or goes beyond it. Thus...