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comparisons with
English, Irish and Welsh literary traditions extensively. Skomorokhova doubted, however, that Rich's style would appeal to a modern reader; she suggested that Rich's translations "may be in line for further revisions as well due to her disregard of contemporary literary aesthetics in her translations".
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as "an outstanding piece of work which will serve many
English readers as an introduction to an unjustly neglected corner of European literature". He was critical, however, of a misrepresentative – to a certain degree – selection of works: poor representation of the 19th century poetry and emphasis
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strongly objected to the dust jacket carrying the
Pahonia; after the book went on sale the BSSR party demanded the whole stock to be destroyed, however UNESCO refused as this would have constituted a breach of the contract with the publisher. Eventually, UNESCO agreed to pay for replacing the dust
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method make it as yet unrivalled", while "the coverage and the encyclopaedic character of the data presented in the book are extensive". Skomorokhova noted that for translating and explaining
Belarusian poetry, Vera Rich used masterfully her knowledge of classical English literature, and employed
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The reprinted dust jacket had neither the
Pahonia nor an oak leaf; it was plain sky-blue with bold lettering. The price went up from £4.50 to £4.95. Both editions — at variance with the established bibliographical practice — carried the same ISBN, which makes finding the copies with the original
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Belarusian diaspora were included. Adamovič admitted that the book had "many apt observations and comments in the introduction and in the numerous notes", however it contained "just as many misunderstandings and factual errors". This led him to suggest that while the book would be useful and
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Thirty years after the anthology's appearance, a US-based scholar, Lavon Jurevič, wrote that the anthology "is a unique edition even today; it is indeed the only one of its kind in a positive sense, because of its quality and coverage, but also in a negative sense, it being the only one".
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Acknowledgements section reads like a piece of smart comedy. It begins with acknowledging 13 libraries and research institutions which assisted Vera Rich with "help and advice": mostly libraries in Britain (incl. the
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on poetry of the last 30 years (that is, 1940s-60s) which — he speculated — might have been the result of the sponsors' influence. In his opinion, the translator was most successful with the works of the beginning of the 20th century and the
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poetry was represented most extensively: 29 out of 41 authors of the anthology were living at the time of the publication; 165 out of 221 poems were composed and published in
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