The Kobzar of the Ukraine : Being select poems of Taras Shevchenko done into English verse with biographical fragments by Alexander Jardine Hunter
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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobzar_(poetry_collection) Release date is 2022-07-09
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"The Kobzar of the Ukraine" by Taras Shevchenko is a collection of poems first published in 1840 in Saint Petersburg. This groundbreaking work introduced eight poems that would transform Shevchenko into a symbol of Ukrainian national and literary revival. The collection faced fierce tsarist censorship—banned, confiscated, and nearly destroyed after the poet's 1847 arrest. Despite persecution, copies survived through secret manuscript transcriptions, preserving these powerful verses that defined a nation's cultural identity and earned Shevchenko his enduring nickname: The Kobzar. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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Shevchenko, Taras, 1814-1861 Ukrainian poetry -- 19th century -- Translations into English