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EUGENE ONEGIN

Alexander Pushkin

Translated by Henry Spalding

CONTENTS:

PREFACE ...................................................................................................................3

Mon Portrait ................................................................................................................4

A Short Biographical Notice of Alexander Pushkin. ....................................................6

Eugene Oneguine ......................................................................................................11

CANTO THE FIRST.................................................................................................12

CANTO THE SECOND............................................................................................36

CANTO THE THIRD ...............................................................................................53

CANTO THE FOURTH............................................................................................74

CANTO THE FIFTH.................................................................................................90

CANTO THE SIXTH.............................................................................................. 108

CANTO THE SEVENTH........................................................................................ 126

CANTO THE EIGHTH........................................................................................... 148

PREFACE

Eugene Oneguine, the chief poetical work of Russia's greatest poet, having been

translated into all the principal languages of Europe except our own, I hope that this

version may prove an acceptable contribution to literature. Tastes are various in matters

of poetry, but the present work possesses a more solid claim to attention in the series of

faithful pictures it offers of Russian life and manners. If these be compared with Mr.

Wallace's book on Russia, it will be seen that social life in that empire still preserves

many of the characteristics which distinguished it half a century agothe period of the

first publication of the latter cantos of this poem.

Many references will be found in it to our own country and its literature. Russian poets

have carefully plagiarized the Englishnotably Joukovski. Pushkin, however, was no

plagiarist, though undoubtedly his mind was greatly influenced by the genius of Byron

more especially in the earliest part of his career. Indeed, as will be remarked in the

following pages, he scarcely makes an effort to disguise this fact.

The biographical sketch is of course a mere outline. I did not think a longer one

advisable, as memoirs do not usually excite much interest till the subjects of them are

pretty well known. In the "notes" I have endeavored to elucidate a somewhat obscure

subject. Some of the poet's allusions remain enigmatical to the present day. The point of

each sarcasm naturally passed out of mind together with the society against which it was

levelled. If some of the versification is rough and wanting in "go," I must plead in excuse

the difficult form of the stanza, and in many instances the inelastic nature of the subject

matter to be versified. Stanza XXXV Canto II forms a good example of the latter

difficulty, and is omitted in the German and French versions to which I have had access.

The translation of foreign verse is comparatively easy so long as it is confined to

conventional poetic subjects, but when it embraces abrupt scraps of conversation and the

description of local customs it becomes a much more arduous affair. I think I may say

that I have adhered closely to the text of the original.

The following foreign translations of this poem have appeared:

1. French prose. Oeuvres choisis de Pouchekine. H. Dupont. Paris,

1847.

2. German verse. A. Puschkin's poetische Werke. F. Bodenstedt. Berlin, 1854.

3. Polish verse. Eugeniusz Oniegin. Roman Aleksandra Puszkina. A. Sikorski. Vilnius,

1847.

4. Italian prose. Racconti poetici di A. Puschkin, tradotti da A. Delatre. Firenze, 1856.

London, May 1881.

Mon Portrait

Written by the poet at the age of 15.

Vous me demandez mon portrait,

Mais peint d'apres nature:

Mon cher, il sera bientot fait,

Quoique en miniature.

Je suis un jeune polisson

Encore dans les classes;

Point sot, je le dis sans facon,

Et sans fades grimaces.

Oui! il ne fut babillard

Ni docteur de Sorbonne,

Plus ennuyeux et plus braillard

Que moimeme en personne.

Ma taille, a celle des plus longs,

Elle n'est point egalee;

J'ai le teint frais, les cheveux blonds,

Et la tete bouclee.

J'aime et le monde et son fracas,

Je hais la solitude;

J'abhorre et noises et debats,

Et tant soit peu l'etude.

Spectacles, bals, me plaisent fort,

Et d'apres ma pensee,

Je dirais ce que j'aime encore,

Si je n'etais au Lycee.

Apres cela, mon cher ami,

L'on peut me reconnaitre,

Oui! tel que le bon Dieu me fit,

Je veux toujours paraitre.

Vrai demon, par l'espieglerie,

Vrai singe par sa mine,

Beaucoup et trop d'etourderie,

Ma foi! voila Pouchekine.

Note: Russian proper names to be pronounced as in French (the nasal sound of m and n

excepted) in the following translation. The accent, which is very arbitrary in the Russian

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