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A handwritten copy of "Death of the Poet", presumably one of the many contemporary copies which were circulated. From the State Literary Museum, Moscow. "Death of the Poet" (Russian: Смерть Поэта) is an 1837 poem by Mikhail Lermontov, written in reaction to the death of Alexander Pushkin.
Russian poet, translator, painter, novelist, playwright and military officer: Date of birth/death: 15 October 1814: 27 July 1841: Location of birth/death: Moscow : Pyatigorsk / Пятигорск: Work period: 1828 – Work location
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (/ ˈ l ɛər m ə n t ɒ f / LAIR-mən-tof, US also /-t ɔː f /-tawf; [1] Russian: Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil ˈjʉrʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲerməntəf]; 15 October [O.S. 3 October] 1814 – 27 July [O.S. 15 July] 1841) was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", the most ...
Shortly after Pushkin's death, contemporary Russian romantic poet Mikhail Lermontov wrote "Death of the Poet". The poem, which ended with a passage blaming the aristocracy being (as oppressors of freedom) the true culprits in Pushkin's death, [44] was not published (nor could have been) but was informally circulated in St. Petersburg. [45]
He was forced to abruptly abandon it 1837 after being arrested for his controversial poem "Death of the Poet", and later opted against finishing it. On June 8, 1838, in a letter to his friend Svyatoslav Rayevsky he wrote: "The novel that we've started stalked and will hardly get another start, for the circumstances that formed its background ...
1837 in poetry; A. Anhelli; B. Borodino (poem) D. Death of the Poet; E. Eastern poem on the death of Pushkin; J. Joan of Arc (poem) S. St. Agnes (poem) T. To a Wreath ...
The poem (signed "-v") was published in No.3 issue of Sovremennik, with both editorial (by Zhukovsky) and censorial cuts. The title was curtailed to just Kaznatcheysha (A Treasurer's Wife). The manuscript of the poem has been lost. None of the omitted lines has been restored since. [1] The way the poem was treated outraged Lermontov.
Sarah Williams (December 1837 [a] – 25 April 1868) was an English poet and novelist, most famous as the author of the poem "The Old Astronomer". She published short works and one collection of poetry during her lifetime under the pseudonyms Sadie and S.A.D.I., the former of which she considered her name rather than a nom de plume. [1]