Appendix: Sumarokov’s “Chorus to a Perverse World”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword V
3. Preface VII
4. Contents IX
5. I. The Russian Folk Epos in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries 1
6. II. The Czech Revival and Russia 30
7. III. First Influences of Russian Folk Poetry in Czech Literature 43
8. IV. The Climax of the Czech Pre-Romantic Movement: The Work of F. L. Čelakovský 64
9. V. Josef Jaroslav Langer 104
10. VI. Echoes of Russian Epic Influence in Czech Poetry of the Mid-Nineteenth Century 118
11. VII. The Russian Epos and Czech-Slovak Scholarship of the Romantic Period 128
12. VIII. Czech Literature and Russia, 1860–1900 139
13. IX. Translations and Studies of the Russian Epos in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century 146
14. X. Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism: Karel Leger, František Kvapil, František Chalupa 158
15. XI. Realism in Czech Poetry: František Táborský 180
16. XII. Czech Cosmopolitanism and Neo-Romanticism: Julius Zeyer 185
17. XIII. Conclusion 221
18. Appendix: Sumarokov’s “Chorus to a Perverse World” 233
19. Notes 239
20. Bibliography 265
21. Index 273