THE ATHENAEUMThe Kobzar of the UkraineTaras Shevchenko
Poetry
The Kobzar of the Ukraine
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textShevchenko in English verse, by Alexander Jardine Hunter, a Presbyterian medical missionary among the Ukrainian settlers of Manitoba, who published it himself at Teulon in 1922. He read the poems with John Bodrug and Sigmund Bychinsky, and set between them fragments of Shevchenko’s life: twenty-four years a serf, nine a freeman, ten a prisoner and three and a half under police watch. The Kobzar in Ukrainian stands on the racks of this room, and the reader goes from one to the other.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 1 hr 5 min
- Where to find it
- The Ukrainian Reading Room
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #68486. In the public domain in the United States.