Author: Harkins, William Edward
Title: The Russian Folk Epos in Czech Literature, 1800-1900
Description: New York, King’s Crown Press, 1951. orig.cloth. 22x14cm, viii,282 pp. Embossed stamp to flyleaf & title-page.. Rubbed. Binding stains & soil. Good. ¶ Series: Columbia Slavic Studies. Contents: The Russian Folk Epos in the 18 th & Early 19th Centuries; The Czech Revival & Russia; First Influences of Russian Folk Poetry in Czech Literature; The Climax of Czech Pre-Romantic Movement: The Work of F.L. Celakovsky; Josef Jaroslav Langer; Echoes of Russian Epic Influence in Czech Poetry of the Mid-19th Century; The Russian Epos & Czech-Slovak Scholarship of the Romantic Period; Czech Literature & Russia, 1860-1900; Translations & Studies of the Russian Epos in the Second Half of the 19th Century; Cosmopolitanism & Nationlaism: Karel Leger; Frantisek Kvapil; Frantisek Chalupa; Realism in Czech Poetry: Frantisek Taborsky; Czech Cosmopolitanism & Neo-Romanticism: Julius Zeyer; Conclusion; Appendix: Sumarokov's "Chorus to a Perverse World".

Keywords: Czech Literary History, Russian Literature, Epic Folk Poetry, Criticism, Comparative, , , ,