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 [le Leu|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.