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thorough commentator, interpreter, and a lovingtranslator of Shevchenko’s work is the professoreineritusof Columbia University, Clarence A. Manning(horn 1893 J, who published in 1945 a book ofhis renditions of the Ukrainian poet, Taras Shevtcher.ko.The Poet of Ukraine. Selected Poems. Themost, important phase in the progress oi the recognitionof Shovchcnko in the English-speaking world isthe volume ol' thirty-five translations by a youngBritish poet Vera liich, Song Out of Darkness, publishedin 1951 in London. This hook appeared asthe first volume in a planned three-volume editionof Shevchenko’s work in English, under the supervisionof tlie well-known Slavic scholar Y. Svoboda.According to reliable sources, an English translationof the full Kobzar is being prepared at the time ofthis writing by the president of the Acadia University,Prof. Watson Kirkonell and a professor at theUniversity of Sa.skatchevan, Dr. Kost’ Andrasyshyn.The first Rumanian translator of Shevchenkowas the literary critic and prominent patriotConstantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea. He published severalprose translations of Shevchenko’s poems, togetherwith an essay on the poet, in 1894, in theALmanahu Social-democrat, Later, he collected hiatranslations and published them as a separate volumeunder the title Taras Shevchenko. Biblioteca "Im -men” 10(1894). Shevchenko was translated inRumania also by the Bessarabian revolutionaryZamfir C. Arbure, the Bessarabian poet Ion Buzduganand the Moldavians C. Dumitrescu and A. Caftonache.The noted Rumanian poet Mihail Sadoveanupublished some excellent translations of Shevchenko’sverse before the Second World War. The firstRumanian edition of Shevchenko appeared in Bucharestin 1952 under the title Kobzand, with a forewordby M. Sadoveanu and translations by VictorTulbure and V. Kurdun. In a new edition of that20