Tuesday Assignment

Here are the two reading assignments for Tuesday: also make sure to help out with our PROROK translation!
Also remember to bring a copy of these poems along with you to class on Tuesday with all of your mark-ups on them.
Now after our class on Pushkin and The Myth Of Pushkin, it might be an opportune [...]

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For Thursday

Hey all: today we’re going over two Pushkin poems.
For tomorrow we’re starting work on Pushkin’s “Gypsies”.  You should already have found and read the text in English.
A Russian version is available here.
We’ll have a total of three classes on the piece.

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Assignment for Wednesday, Nov. 12

The reading assignment for tomorrow, Tues., Nov. 11 is up on the blog here.
For Wednesday’s discussion class, we are reading two poems by Pushkin, “Ia vas liubil” and “Prorok”
Here is the first:
А.С. Пушкин
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Я вас любил: любовь еще, быть может,
В душе моей угасла не [...]

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Assignment for Tuesday, Nov. 11

Hey class, thanks for the engaging class last Thursday  - we had a good deal to get through, so if you feel like of it passed you by please post your questions of comments here.
For next Tuesday: please read Katenin’s “213 poem” and Zhukovsky carefully and make sure to look up words that you don’t know – [...]

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