{"product_id":"poetry-of-lithuania-an-anthology-poeziya-litvy-chief-editor-p-antokolsky-illustrated-by-a-kucas-1950-in-russian","title":"Poetry of Lithuania: An Anthology (Poeziya Litvy). Chief editor P. Antokolsky. Illustrated by A. Kučas, 1950. In Russian","description":"\u003cp\u003eПоэзия Литвы. Антология.\u003cbr\u003eГлавный редактор Павел Антокольский; редакционная коллегия: Альбинас Жукаускас, Андрей Кленов, Вацис Реймерис, Теофилис Тильвитис, Николай Тихонов. Художник Антанас Кучас.\u003cbr\u003eПодготовлено при участии Института литовской литературы Академии наук Литовской ССР.\u003cbr\u003eВильнюс : Государственное издательство художественной литературы Литовской ССР, 1950. 489 страниц.\u003cbr\u003eИздание выпущено к юбилейной дате \"10 лет Советской Литвы\" (1940-1950), с соответствующим тиснёным посвящением на форзацах.\u003cbr\u003eТвердый издательский переплет с многоцветным (сине-белым) орнаментальным тиснением в виде тюльпанов и цветочных гирлянд на крышке и корешке. Размер 26×21 см. Тираж 20 000 экземпляров.\u003cbr\u003eПереплет хороший, с небольшим износом уголков и корешка. Блок крепкий, текст полный.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003ePoetry of Lithuania: An Anthology.\u003cbr\u003eChief editor Pavel Antokolsky; editorial board: Albinas Žukauskas, Andrei Klenov, Vacys Reimeris, Teofilis Tilvytis, Nikolai Tikhonov. Illustrated by Antanas Kučas.\u003cbr\u003ePrepared with the participation of the Institute of Lithuanian Literature, Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian SSR.\u003cbr\u003eVilnius : State Publishing House of Literature and Art of the Lithuanian SSR, 1950. 489 pp.\u003cbr\u003eIssued to mark the jubilee \"10 Years of Soviet Lithuania\" (1940-1950), with a corresponding gilt-stamped dedication on the endpapers.\u003cbr\u003ePublisher's hardcover with elaborate multicolor (blue-and-white) tooled ornament of tulips and floral garlands on the cover and spine. Format 26×21 cm. Print run of 20,000 copies.\u003cbr\u003eBinding good with light wear to corners and spine. Text block firm, text complete.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCompiled to mark the tenth anniversary of Soviet Lithuania (1940-1950), this anthology offers a two-century retrospective of Lithuanian poetry under the general editorship of Pavel Antokolsky, the celebrated Soviet poet-translator (himself the translator of Nizami's \"Layla and Majnun\" and of Georgian and other Soviet-republic poetry), working with an editorial board of leading Lithuanian and Russian literary figures including Nikolai Tikhonov and the Lithuanian poets Albinas Žukauskas, Vacys Reimeris, and Teofilis Tilvytis, and prepared with the scholarly participation of the Institute of Lithuanian Literature at the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. The collection opens with Kristijonas Donelaitis (1714-1780), regarded as the founding figure of Lithuanian poetry and one of the earliest exponents of realism in eighteenth-century European literature, whose long poem \"The Seasons\" (\"Metai\") depicted the peasant world and serfdom of his native Lithuania Minor with unusual documentary vividness; it continues through Dionizas Poška and the nineteenth-century national revival, includes, for completeness, several representatives of the earlier \"bourgeois-nationalist\" current such as Maironis and Vincas Kudirka, and closes with the flowering of Soviet Lithuanian poetry in the work of Eduardas Mieželaitis, Antanas Jonynas, Juozas Macevičius, and their contemporaries. As a jubilee production, the volume was given an especially decorative treatment: an elaborate blue-and-white tooled binding of tulips and floral garlands and illuminated endpapers bearing the \"10 Years of Soviet Lithuania\" dedication. The anthology remains a useful compact survey of Lithuanian poetry in Russian translation and a well-preserved example of the deluxe commemorative volumes produced across the Soviet republics to mark their own jubilee anniversaries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44620374114346,"sku":null,"price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_9948_a3bfb627-96b7-4f1a-a967-8f4422718e67.jpg?v=1785149084","url":"https:\/\/stanzararebooks.com\/products\/poetry-of-lithuania-an-anthology-poeziya-litvy-chief-editor-p-antokolsky-illustrated-by-a-kucas-1950-in-russian","provider":"Stanza Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}