26 Poems by Osip Mandel'shtam [Mandelstam], Translated by Tom J. Lewis, [for] Comparative Literature C570, May 12, 1966, Professor Barnstone

1966. Paperback. Fine. Thirteen leaves, typed on the recto only, stapled at top corner. (Pagination: [2], 1-11.) Mimeo format, early English translation of Osip Mandel'shtam's poetry, especially notable for being the product of a collaboration with poet and formidable Greek scholar Willis Barnstone, whose literary translation of the New Testament is an important contribution to the restoration of Christianity to its Jewish context. It is appropriate that a student of Barnstone should turn to Mandelstam as a translation project. A great Russian Jewish (truncated) poet who died in a labor camp under Stalin in 1938, Mandelstam didn't garnet much interest in the West until the 1970s. Tom Lewis offers in his paper a one-page introduction to his work, no doubt encouraged by Barnstone, who is known for explicating the task of translation, as in his popular pedagogic tool, "ABC of Translating Poetry." (Inventory #: R5286)