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Collection of ballads which replaces Russell Ward's earlier edition, 'Penguin Book of Australian Ballads'. Includes many familiar songs and also several virtually unknown ballads. Covers British and Irish broadsides, popular convict verse, early newspaper verse, goldfield songs, old bush songs, and later ballads and popular verse. Includes a bibliography and indexes of titles and first lines. Butterss teaches Australian literature at the University of Adelaide. Webby is professor of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney and editor of the literary journal, 'Southerly'.
The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads offers a rich mixture of old favourites and re-discovered verse and song. From the horrors of convict floggings to the pleasures of a cheerful glass; from the defiance of Bold Jack Donahoo to the desire to strangle Billy if he sings 'The Wild Colonial Boy'; from the squatter's wife trapped in the bush to the woman who rejoices when her husband falls down a mine shaft. These are the voices of the Australian experience from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries.
An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged, with Pushkin and his contemporaries ushering in the 'Golden Age' of Russian literature. Prose briefly gained the high ground in the second half of the nineteenth century, but poetry again became dominant in the 'Silver Age' (the early twentieth century), when belief in reason and progress yielded once more to a more magical view of the world. During the Soviet era, poetry became a dangerous, subversive activity; nevertheless, poets such as Osip Mandelstam and Anna Akhmatova continued to defy the censors. This anthology traces Russian poetry from its Golden Age to the modern era, including work by several great poets - Georgy Ivanov and Varlam Shalamov among them - in captivating modern translations by Robert Chandler and others. The volume also includes a general introduction, chronology and individual introductions to each poet. Robert Chandler is an acclaimed poet and translator. His many translations from Russian include works by Aleksandr Pushkin, Nikolay Leskov, Vasily Grossman and Andrey Platonov, while his anthologies of Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida and Russian Magic Tales are both published in Penguin Classics. Irina Mashinski is a bilingual poet and co-founder of the StoSvet literary project. Her most recent collection is 2013's Ophelia i masterok [Ophelia and the Trowel]. Boris Dralyuk is a Lecturer in Russian at the University of St Andrews and translator of many books from Russian, including, most recently, Isaac Babel's Red Cavalry (2014).
The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. This extraordinary collection sets the acknowledged genius of poems such as Blake's 'Tyger', Coleridge's 'Khubla Khan' and Shelley's 'Ozymandias' alongside verse from less familiar figures and women poets such as Charlotte Smith and Mary Robinson. We also see familiar poets in an unaccustomed light, as Blake, Wordsworth and Shelley demonstrate their comic skills, while Coleridge, Keats and Clare explore the Gothic and surreal.