Publications tagged: Translator

Taras Shevchenko's poem
"Prychynna" / "Reve ta stohne Dnipr shyrokyi"
("Причинна" / "Реве та стогне Дніпр широкий")
1837, S.- Petersburg, (C. - Петербург)

Translated by Iryna Zheleznova.

 

 

 

Taras Shevchenko, "Calamity Once More"​

"Mii Bozhe mylyi, znovu lykho!"

("Мій Боже милий, знову лихо!")

1859, S.- Petersburg (Санкт-Петербург)

(Translated by Gabriel Rosenstock)

 

 

 

Taras Shevchenko, poem "Naimechka or The Servant"
"Naymychka" (Наймичка"), поема
("U nedilyu vrantsi-rano pole vkrylosya tumanom..." /
"У неділю вранці-рано поле вкрилося туманом...")
Pereyaslav, November 13, 1845.

Translated by Alexander Jardine Hunter

 

 

Taras Shevchenko, poem "My Testament"
"Zapovit" / “Iak umru, to pokhovaite”
"Заповіт" / "Як умру, то поховайте")
1845, Pereiaslav (Переяслав)

Translated by Alexander Jardine Hunter

 

 

 

Taras Shevchenko, the poem "The Housemaid"
"Naymychka" (Наймичка"), поема
("U nedilyu vrantsi-rano pole vkrylosya tumanom..." /
"У неділю вранці-рано поле вкрилося туманом...")
Pereyaslav, November 13, 1845.

Translated by Olga Shartse

 

Taras Shevchenko, "The Caucasus​​"
"Kavkaz" / "Za goramy` gory`, hmaroyu povy`ti...
("Кавказ" / "За горами гори, хмарою повиті...")
Pereyaslav, November 18, 1845

Translated by John Weir

Poem of Taras Shevchenko
"Thoughts of mine, О thoughts of mine"
"Dumy moji, dumy moji, lykho meni z vamy!"
("Думи мої, думи мої, лихо мені з вами")
[1839, S.-Petersburg (Санкт-Петербург)]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Taras Shevchenko's poem
"The Heretic" / "Bad neighbours came and sat afire"
("Єретик" / "Запалили у сусіда нову добру хату")
Village Maryinske, October 10, 1845

Translated by John Weir

 

 

 

 

Taras Shevchenko's poem

"My Testament" 

"Zapovit" / "Iak umru to pokhovaite"

("Заповіт" / "Як умру, то поховайте"),

1845, Pereiaslav (Переяслав)

 

 

 

 

 

Taras Shevchenko
"Kateryna" / "Kokhaytesya, chornobryvi, ta ne z moskalyamyК"
("Катерина" / "Кохайтеся, чорнобриві, та не з москалями")
1838, S.- Petersburg (С.- Петербург)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Taras Shevchenko
"Hamaliya" / "Oh, the winds are mute, the tides do not carry"
("Гамалія" / "Ой нема, нема ні вітру, ні хвилі")
1842.

Poem of Taras Shevchenko "Katerina" ("Kateryna") in English, translated by John Weir and Mary Skrypnyk

"Hamaliya" - poem of Taras Shevchenko in English by different translators

 

"My Testament" - poem of Taras Shevchenko (English translation by John Weir, Vera Rich, Ethel Lilian Voynich, Michael M. Naydan, Alexander J. Motyl)

 

"Thoughts of mine, О thoughts of mine" (translated from Ukrainian into English by various translators)

 

...and other...

 

Taras Shevchenko
"Hamaliya" / "Oh, the winds are mute, the tides do not carry"
("Гамалія" / "Ой нема, нема ні вітру, ні хвилі")
[October - first half of November, 1842]

Translated by John Weir

 

Taras Shevchenko
"Perebendya"
("Перебендя")
1839, St.-Petersburg 
(Санкт-Петербург)

Translated by John Weir

 

 

 

Read an interesting interview with Michael Naydan.

 

Taras Shevchenko

"Катерина", поема / "Кохайтеся, чорнобриві"

"Kateryna", poema / "Kokhaytesya, chornobryvi"

St. Petersburg, 1838

Translated by John Weir

Upon learning of the English-language publication of “The Complete Kobzar” by Peter Fedynsky, one could reasonably ask: do we really need another English language translation of Shevchenko’s poems? The answer is a resounding yes! For two reasons. The first is that this is the first English translation of the “Kobzar” in its entirety. The second reason is articulated by Prof. Michael M. Naydan in his introduction (“A Kobzar for a New Millennium”) to the book: “to convey the poet’s verse in a modern English idiom that could be easily understood by readers of today.”

 

Taras Shevchenko wrote "Katerina" in 1838, in St. Petersburg, when he was 24 years old. It was in the same year that he was bought out of serfdom from Baron Englehardt by a group of St. Petersburg artists and intellectuals. This poem is dedicated to the Russian writer Zhukovsky, who posed for Karl Bryullov, the leading artist of the time. The portrait was sold for 2,500 rubles, to raise the purchase price of Taras Shevchenko’s freedom. The poem “Katerina” was first printed in the 1840 edition of “Kobzar”, and many of the passages were censored. In it, Shevchenko brings out the life of the serfs of that period, the status of women, and expresses his hatred of the tsarist regime which kept Ukraine in bondage.

 

Poem of Taras Shevchenko
"Chy ne pokynut' nam, neboho"
("Чи не покинуть нам, небого")
1861, St. Petersburg, (С. - Петербург)

Taras Shevchenko's poem
"Yakos'-to yduchy unochi"
("Якось-то йдучи уночі")
1860, St. Petersburg, (С. - Петербург)