[Glenn Wright]

Hi, Carl—

This is a smooth, lovely, and seemingly effortless rendering of Pushkin’s homage to Horace in Second Asclepiad, a very difficult meter. It is fascinating to compare Horace’s self-congratulatory poem with Pushkin’s political call to arms. I can see the seeds of Pan-Slavism in this poem.

I smiled at Pushkin’s sly implied comparison of Tsar Aleksandr I to the Biblical pharaoh and of himself to Moses. I like how Pushkin follows Horace stanza-by-stanza (making two stanzas out of Horace’s third stanza).

I wondered about the word пиит in S2L4. Is this an archaic form of поэт?

Very impressive work, Carl!

Glenn