Education through words

The collection includes articles and memoirs of one of the masters of the artistic word, the famous poet and translator Samuel Yakovlevich Marshak. S. Marshak’s conversation about his poetic experience, shares his thoughts on the importance of poetry and fairy tales in the life of children and adults, creates literary portraits of Nekrasov, Pushkin, Tvardovsky, discusses rhyme and rhythmics, recalls meetings with famous contemporaries. The book will become interesting to all those who are not indifferent to the artistic word, to all the “talented readers”, on which, according to S. Marshak, “and the author expects when he strains all his mental powers in search of the right image, the correct turn of the action, the faithful word.”