Article: A History of European Versification.(Review)

A History of European Versification. By M. L. GASPAROV, trans. by G. S. Smith and M. TARLINSKAYA. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1996. xvi + 334 pp. 40 [pounds sterling].

This book, the first of its kind, is the fruit of multilayered collaboration and its vast and complex subject-matter has focused the expertise of an army of scholars. The author's extensive learning was initially fortified by reference to specialist works and the cooperation of fellow Russian linguists. At the translation stage, the translators drew upon the special knowledge of members of the Oxford Faculty of Modern Languages and when the translators had submitted their manuscript to the Clarendon ...

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