The Russian Mood Volume 1

The Russian Mood volume 1 is an anthology of 19th and 20th century Russian poems translated into English by Elena Levin and James L. Vendeland. In most instances the authors have endeavored to keep the same rhyme, rhythm, and essence of the original Russian text. The translation of poems by fourteen Russian poets comprises this volume. Included are poems of Zhukovsky, Viazemsky, Tyutchev, Lermontov, Polonsky, Nekrasov, Gumilev, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Yesenin, Zabolotzky, Gamzatov, Korzhavin, and Rozhdestvensky. Following several of these poems are hyperlinks connecting the reader to you tube sites where one can listen to the music to which these poems have been set.