Min as translator of Crabbe: a Russian transformation of Peter Grimes (1).(Dmitrij Egorovic Min)(Critical essay) From: Germano-Slavica | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2005 University of Waterloo - Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Language Literature. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

When George Crabbe's poem The Borough first appeared in 1810, it proved immediately popular. A collection of twenty-four verse "Letters," it was reprinted that year and five times in the following five years; since then it has reappeared several times in conjunction with other poems of Crabbe. One of its narrative Letters in particular, "Peter Grimes," has proved especially popular and has often been anthologized. In fact, in 1945 Benjamin Britten (with Montague Slater as librettist) wrote an opera about its hero, and in 1971 Michael Marland wrote a further dramatic version of the ...

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