Feodor Vladimir Larrovitch An appreciation of his life and works Edited by William George Jordan and Richardson Wright
by William G. (William George) Jordan, Richardson L. (Richardson Little) Wright
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8vo. pp. [4], 126, [6] (first 4 and last 5 blank). Photographic frontispiece and photographic plates facing p. 81, 93 and 103. Plates facing p. 27 and 49. The colophon states: "This book was designed by William Aspinwall Bradley for the Yale University Press, and executed under his supervision by Norman T.A. Munder and Company, Baltimore.”
A hoax by the ‘editors’ Jordan (1864-1928) and Wright (1887-1961), claiming to be the translation of poems by an underappreciated Russian poet. The work was taken seriously immediately after its publication in 1918, until a Slavicist noticed the atypical use of the double "r.”
Content: The personal side of Larrovitch / William George Jordan; Larrovitch's place in literature / M'Cready Sykes; Some translations from Larrovitch / Richardson Wright; Three incidental poems by Larrovitch / George Sidney Hellman; Five Larrovitch letters / Thomas Walsh; The true and false about Larrovitch / Richardson Wright; Talks with Larrovitch / Titus Munson Coan; Toward a Larrovitch foundation / James Howard Bridge; Bibliography of Larrovitch / Arthur Colton.
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