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Book SynopsisHalf-Light & Other Poems brings together the most important and enduring poems by this neglected writer, one of Russia's great 19th century poets. In a new translation by Peter France, the philosophical, social and iterary struggles of Russia under Tsar Nicholas I are brought to vivid life in the verses of a man who felt profoundly and was highly skilled at expressing his emotions and beliefs in dazzling, often fantastical fashion.
Table of ContentsIntroduction; Half-light; To Prince Pyotr Andreevich Vyazemsky; The Last Poet; 'Prejudice? just a fragment'; Novinskoe; Signs; 'Always in purple and in gold'; 'Alas! poor average writer'; Stillborn; Alcibiades; A Grumble; To a Sage; 'Phyllis with each returning winter'; Goblet; 'I have known them, storms and bad weather'; 'Days! What's the use!'; Cliques; Achilles; 'Thought, when embodied first of all'; 'I am not yet ancient as a patriarch'; 'Fretful daytime pleases the multitude'; 'Greetings! sweet-tongued boy'; 'What sounds are these?'; 'Thought, yet more thought!'; Sculptor; Autumn; 'Blessed be he who speaks of what is sacred!'; Rhyme; Other Poems; An Admission; Tempest; Ultimate Death; 'My talent is pitiful'; 'What is the freedom of dreams to the prisoner'; 'Song heals the aching spirit'; 'Enchanted groves, I came to visit you'; Planting a Wood; Steamship
