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176: 121:. Unlike them, Lozinsky did not strive to modernise Shakespeare by stripping him of obscure details and puns. Soviet critics tended to dismiss his Shakespeare translations as "obscure, heavy, and unintelligible"; Akhmatova, however, felt that Lozinsky brilliantly achieved his aim of "conveying the age of Shakespeare's language and the complexity about which even the English complain". 80:
Despite his impeccable craftsmanship, Lozinsky's poetry failed to attract public attention owing to its lack of substance and originality. Lozinsky therefore began applying his literary skills to the translation of works by notable non-Russian literary figures such as
20: 93:, and others. In his diary, Blok noted that some of Lozinsky's translations were superior to those of Zhukovsky, who had been regarded as a model for Russian verse translators for generations. 42:; 20 July 1886 – 31 January 1955) is deemed to be the most accomplished Russian translator of the 20th century. "In the difficult and noble art of translation," said 231: 236: 211: 226: 19: 221: 180: 159: 206: 66: 246: 216: 90: 102:
which he completed between 1939 and 1945 in spite of poor health. This accomplishment won him the
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have been somewhat less popular than contemporary translations by
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Lozinsky's greatest feat was his translation of Dante's
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Sergey Gorodetsky
Russian
Anna Akhmatova
Zhukovsky
Gatchina
St. Petersburg
Alexander Blok
Silver Age of Russian Poetry
Acmeist
Nikolay Gumilyov
Benvenuto Cellini
Lope de Vega
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Divine Comedy
Stalin Prize
Shakespeare
Boris Pasternak
Samuil Marshak
Tatyana Tolstaya
Natalia Tolstaya


ISBN
0-8101-1485-2

Mikhail Lozinsky
Categories
1886 births
1955 deaths

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