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The Poetry of Taras Shevchenko

by Taras Shevchenko

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To Ukrainians, Taras Shevchenko is more than a poet; he is the voice of a nation. This collection gathers verse from the writer whose 1840 book Kobzar helped bring the Ukrainian language into serious literature. Born a serf and later exiled by tsarist authorities, Shevchenko wrote of peasant suffering, stolen freedom, and the dream of a country able to govern itself. His lines move between folk song and prophecy, tender in their portraits of village life and fierce in their anger at injustice. Banned and confiscated in his lifetime, the poems only grew in power.

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Taras Shevchenko

Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861) was a Ukrainian poet and painter born into serfdom and freed only as a young man. His collection Kobzar laid a foundation for modern Ukrainian literature, and his verse against tsarist rule brought him arrest, exile, and lasting reverence as a national symbol.

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Pages
114
Language
English
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