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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.
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]
William Chatterton Dix (14 June 1837 – 9 September 1898) was an English writer of hymns and carols.He was born in Bristol, the son of John Dix, a local surgeon, who wrote The Life of Chatterton the poet, a book of Pen Pictures of Popular English Preachers and other works. [1]
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
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 ...
Brígida was born to the poet Francisco Agüero y Estrada and Ana Maria Agüero y Varona, very respectable and distinguished people of society. [1] Her father was generally appreciated for his literary talent, and for being one of the first poets of Puerto-Principe, the town that's known today as Camagüey.
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 ...
Henry Beekman Livingston Jr. (October 13, 1748 – February 29, 1828) was an American poet, and has been proposed as being the uncredited author of the 1823 poem A Visit from St. Nicholas, more popularly known (after its first line) as The Night Before Christmas.