Gnedich

Nikolay Gnedich

Nikolay Gnedich

Russian poet and translator

Nikolay Ivanovich Gnedich (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Гне́дич, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ ˈɡnʲedʲɪtɕ] ⓘ; 13 February [O.S. 2 February] 1784 – 15 February [O.S. 3 February] 1833) was a Ukrainian-born Russian poet and translator best known for his idyll The Fishers (1822). His translation of the Iliad (1807–29) is still the standard one.

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Alexander Pushkin assessed Gnedich's Iliad as "a noble exploit worthy of Achilles" and addressed to him an epistle starting with lines "With Homer you conversed alone for days and nights..."[1]

Pushkin also penned an epigram in Homeric hexameters, which unfavourably compares one-eyed Gnedich with the blind Greek poet:

He also wrote Don Corrado de Gerrera (1803), probably the first example of Russian Gothic fiction.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. "To Gnedich". Oldpoetry. Archived from the original on 2005-05-21.
  2. [2]
    Remnick, David. The Translation Wars
  3. [3]
    The Gothic-fantastic in nineteenth-century Russian literature, Neil Cornwell, p. 59.

Bibliography

  • Imperial Moscow University: 1755-1917: encyclopedic dictionary. Moscow: Russian political encyclopedia (ROSSPEN). 2010. pp. 167–168. ISBN 978-5-8243-1429-8. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
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