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"Poetry, Prose, and Pushkin's Egyptian Nights" by Ludmila Shleyfer Lavine in The Slavic and East European Journal , Vol. 42, No. 3 (Autumn, 1998), p. 402-422 (JSTOR URL)
While I have put this article under the 'poetry' section, it could just as easily be put under 'prose' as it is an examination of Pushkin's transition from poetry to prose, especially in "Egyptian Nights".
Pushkin as Historical Figure
"The Centenary of Pushkin" by Clarence A. Manning in The Modern Language Journal , Vol. 21, No. 4 (Jan., 1937), p. 242-243 (JSTOR URL)
This article is meant to highlight the importance of Pushkin to the Russian literary tradition.
" Russia 's Literary Genius Alexander Pushkin: The Great-Grandson of an African Slave" by Anne Lounsbery in The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education , No. 27 (Spring, 2000), p. 105-108 (JSTOR URL)
This article considers Pushkin's ethnicity.
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Remembrance
by Aleksandr Pushkin
When the loud day for men who sow and reap
Grows still, and on the silence of the town
The unsubstantial veils of night and sleep,
The meed of the day's labour, settle down,
Then for me in the stillness of the night
The wasting, watchful hours drag on their course,
And in the idle darkness comes the bite
Of all the burning serpents of remorse;
Dreams seethe; and fretful infelicities
Are swarming in my over-burdened soul,
And Memory before my wakeful eyes
With noiseless hand unwinds her lengthy scroll.
Then, as with loathing I peruse the years,
I tremble, and I curse my natal day,
Wail bitterly, and bitterly shed tears,
But cannot wash the woeful script away.
--Translated by Maurice Baring
From "World Poetry," edited by Katharine Washburn, John S. Major and Clifton Fadiman (W.W. Norton: 1,338 pp.) |
