Vazha-Pshavela: Verses, 'Aluda Ketelauri', 'Host and Guest', 'The Snake Eater'
'Aluda Ketelauri’ (1888), ‘Host and Guest’ (1893) and ‘The Snake Eater’ (1901) are epic poems of Vazha-Pshavela' (pen name of Luka Razikashvili), Georgian poet who does not have equal in Georgian poetry. In these epic works Pshavela raised the problems of the interrelations of man and family/society/nature and resolved the problems of love and duty to the people; he depicted the conflict between the individual and 'temi' (the peasant commune), where the heroes (people of strong spirit) oppose certain obsolete laws of this commune as a result of the sense of their own worth and thirst for freedom.... Vazha Pshavela idealized the old customs of the Pshavy, their purity, and their freedom from the taint of “false civilization.”
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Translators:
- Donald Rayfield, Venera Urushadze, Lela Jgerenaia
Translated Works:
- POEM 'ALUDA KETELAURI’from 'Three Poems: Aluda Ketelauri, Host and Guest, The Snake Eater' and 'Modern Poetry in Translation' translated by Donald Rayfield
- POEM ‘HOST AND GUEST’from 'Three Poems: Aluda Ketelauri, Host and Guest, The Snake Eater' translated by Donald Rayfield and from 'Translation of World Literature' translated by Leila Jgerenaia
- POEM ‘THE SNAKE EATER’ from 'Three Poems: Aluda Ketelauri, Host and Guest, The Snake Eater' translated by Donald Rayfield and from 'Anthology of Georgian Poetry' translated by Venera Urushadze
- VERSES: 'A Feast', 'The Shepherd-Maid', 'A light worn garment hid her form...', 'A Solitary Word', 'A Song: Beyond the river dark thou art...', 'The Eagle', 'Despair', 'A Song: Once there bloomed upon a meadow...', 'Elegy', 'The Sword's Complaint', 'Letter of a Pshav Soldier to his Mother', 'I feel like singing and I sing (a song)', 'I hate you – I love you' from 'Anthology of Georgian Poetry' translated by Venera Urushadze and from 'Translations of World Literature' translated by Lela Jgerenaia
- VERSE 'I hate you – I love you' translated by P.J.Hillary
Available/ Sources:
- 'HOST AND GUEST' from 'Translation of World Literature' is available here, Source: Poetry in Translation
- 'SNAKE'S EATER' from 'Anthology of Georgian Poetry' is available here, Source: National Parliamentary Library of Georgia
- VERSES from 'Anthology of Georgian Poetry' are available here, Source: National Parliamentary Library of Georgia
- VERSES from 'Translations of World Literature' are available here, Source: The Messenger Online
- VERSE translated by P.J.Hillary is available here, Source: Armazi website