Leda and the Swan. English, Irish, and American poets

The present book is the result of the forty -year -old work of Roman Dubrovkin, one of the most significant translators of poetry, known for its arrangements of Western European classics from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. The collection of "Leda and Swan" included the chosen works of eight famous poets of England, Ireland and the USA - T. Mura, P. B. Shelley, G. Longfello, E. Po, T. Gardi, R. Kipling, W. B. Iseits , R. Frost. Poems are published in the original language with parallel Russian texts.

"selection of names, selection of works for translation is a subjective process, exclusively dictated by the taste of the translator, his artistic addictions. This approach, extremely far from the scientific, allows, with a small amount of the book, to move away from a textbook idea of ​​a particular poet, to open in a familiar author something new, to discover the little -known line of his work. ” Roman Dubrovkin