Timeless Poetry (European Literature Days 2022)

The anthology “Timeless Poetry” unites Ukrainian and world classics and presents the works of famous modern poets of Ukraine. The book includes poems by Taras Shevchenko, Lesia Ukrainka, Ivan Franko, Lina Kostenko, Kateryna Babkina, Halyna Kruk, Serhii Zhadan, Yurii Izdryk, William Shakespeare, Sharlotte Brontë, Rudyard Kipling, William Butler Yeats, Rabindranath Tagore. World poetry has acquired new flavors when translated into Vietnamese poetic form “Lục Bát”.

The collection is imbued with love for man, homeland and life, be it the words of a British poetess of the Enlightenment or a contemporary Ukrainian poet. The book  is illustrated with wonderful works of artistic heritage of the great author Taras Shevchenko, which belong to the collection of the National Museum of his name.

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ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR

Author and translator Vu Tuan Hoang is a lecturer at the Institute of Philology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in Ukraine.