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"Eugene Onegin: An Inverted Byronic Poem" by Sona Stephen Hoisngton in Comparative Literature , Vol. 27, No. 2 (Spring, 1975), p. 136-152 (JSTOR URL)
This article also discusses the Byronic influence on "Eugene Onegin".
Pushkin and Goethe
"Pushkin and Goethe" by Lubov Keeper in Modern Language Notes Vol. 56, No. 1 (Jan. 1941), p. 24-34 (JSTOR URL)
This article argues that there are many similarities between Pushkin and Goethe in spite of their differing worldviews.
"Alexander Pushkin's View of Goethe" by Andre Von Gronicka in Comparative Literature Vol. 12, No. 3 (Summer, 1960), p. 243-255 (JSTOR URL)
This article also considers Goethe's influence on Pushkin, but differs in that it considers Goethe's relations to the historical climate that Pushkin was writing in.
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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.) |
