1827 poem by Alexander Pushkin
The Gypsies (Russian: Цыга́ны, romanized: Tsygany) is a narrative poem in 569 lines by Alexander Pushkin, originally written in Russian in 1824 and first fully published in 1827.[1] The last of Pushkin's four 'Southern Poems' written during his exile in the south of the Russian Empire, The Gypsies is also considered to be the most mature of these Southern poems, and has been praised for originality and its engagement with psychological and moral issues.[2][3] The poem has inspired at least eighteen operas and several ballets.[4]
- ^ The edition used here is Pushkin, A.S. and Bondi S.M. (ed.) (1960) ЦЫГАНЫ in Собрание сочинений в десяти томах (Sobranie sochinenii A.S. Pushkina v desiasti tomakh). Moscow.
- ^ A.D.P. Briggs praises The Gypsies for its "imaginative narration of a high order" and its attempt to grapple with "real issues of human psychology and morality". Briggs, A.D.P. (1982) Alexander Pushkin: A Critical Study Duckworth: London. pp. 102–3.
- ^ The poet Antony Wood calls The Gypsies "terse, objective and rational" and "the most mature of Pushkin's southern poems". See Pushkin, Aleksandr, Antony Wood and Simon Brett. (2006) The Gypsies & Other Narrative Poems. Boston, MA: David R. Godine. pp. xxi–xxii.
- ^ See Gasparov, Boris. (2006) "Pushkin in music" in The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin, ed. Andrew Kahn. Cambridge: CUP. p. 159