Wilhelm Levick

Wilhelm Veniaminovich Levick was a Russian poet, translator, literary critic and artist. He translated Shakespeare, Byron, Baudelaire, Goethe, Schiller, Heine, La Fontaine, Mickiewicz, Ronsard, Du Bellay, Camões, Petrarch, Gautier, Lenau, Aragon and others. Many famous poets, translators and writers have noted that Levik translations are characterized by high culture, poetry and precision in the transmission of the original.
He wrote a number of theoretical works, which are devoted to how the problems of literary translation and the creativity of major European poets.