Pushkin's Lyric Intelligence

Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is Russia''s greatest poet, a ''founding father'' of modern Russian literature, and a major figure in world literature. His poetry and prose changed the course of Russian culture, and his works inspired operas by Musorgsky and Tchaikovsky (as well as Peter Shaffer''s Amadeus). Ceaselessly experimental, he is the author of the greatest body of lyric poetry in the langu...