CHAPTER II: PUSHKIN; LERMONTÓFF 39

PUSHKIN--Beauty of form--Pushkin and Schiller--His youth; his exile; his later career and death--Fairy tales: _Ruslán and Ludmíla_--His lyrics--“Byronism”--Drama--Evghéniy Onyeghin--LERMONTÓFF--Pushkin or Lermontóff? His life--The Caucasus--Poetry of nature--Influence of Shelley--_The Demon_--_Mtsýri_--Love of Freedom--Pushkin and Lermontóff as prose-writers--Other poets and novelists of the same epoch.