Although I have sworn an oath not to contribute to NABOKV-L
anymore ...
From the TLS September 27, 2002, p.3
Review by Clive
James of T.J. Binyon, Pushkin: A biography, HarperCollins:
...
Binyon gives us irregular, unrhymed extracts [from EO] that might as well
be prose. They are more approachable than Nabokov's bizarre rendition of
Eugene Onegin, but they are still prose. Nabokov, as one great
writer serving another, wanted to give us an interlinear lexicon. Instead
he gave us a pedigree dog's breakfast, but at least there was no mistaking it
for anything uninspired. ...