Nikolay Ivanovich Gnedich ( ) (February 2(13), 1784, Poltava - February 3(15), 1833, Saint Petersburg) was a Russia n poet and translator best known for his idyll The Fishers (1822). His translation of the Iliad (1807-29) is still the standard one. Alexander Pushkin assessed Gnedich's Iliad as ``a noble exploit worthy of Achilles'' and addressed to him an epistle starting with lines ``With Homer you conversed alone for days and nights...'' http://oldpoetry.com/poetry/3037/showline=1 Pushkin also penned an epigram in Homeric hexameter s, which unfavourably compares one-eyed Gnedich with the blind Greek poet:
Nikolay Ivanovich Gnedich ( ) (February 2(13), 1784, Poltava - February 3(15), 1833, Saint Petersburg) was a Russia n poet and translator best known for his idyll The Fishers (1822).
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His translation of the Iliad (1807-29) is still the standard one.
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Alexander Pushkin assessed Gnedich's Iliad as ``a noble exploit worthy of Achilles'' and addressed to him an epistle starting with lines ``With Homer you conversed alone for days and nights...''
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Alexander
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Pushkin
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noble
noble
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exploit
exploit
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worthy
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address
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epistle
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conversed
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alone
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days
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Pushkin also penned an epigram in Homeric hexameter s, which unfavourably compares one-eyed Gnedich with the blind Greek poet:
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Pushkin
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also
also
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epigram
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hexameter
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unfavourably
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compare
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with
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poet
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