Reinventing Romantic Poetry : Russian Women Poets of the Mid-nineteenth Century

On Mordovtseva, see G. P. Murenina, “Vy zhili nedarom,” in Saratovskie druz’ia Chernyshevskogo,ed. I. V. Porokh (Saratov: Privo ...

On Baratynskii, see M. L. Gofman, “E. A. Boratynskii (Biograficheskii ocherk),” in Baratynskii, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, 1 : ...

both are by Aleksandra Zrazhevskaia: “Zhenshchina—poet i avtor (Otryvok iz romana),” Moskvitianin,no. 9 ( 1842 ): 42–80, and “De ...

Efron, 1911 ), 5 : ix–x. Viazemskii’s letter to Pushkin about Gotovtseva sexualized and trivialized her—perhaps to spare Pushkin ...

Ritchie, “The Anacreontic Poets: Gleim, Uz, and Gotz,” inGerman Men of Letters, ed. Alex Natan and Brian Keith-Smith (London: Os ...

Iazykov: K. K. Bakhmeier, introduction to Polnoe sobranie stikhotvorenii,by N. M. Iazykov, 28 , 42. Fet: Tatyana Whittaker, “Fet ...

Chapter 2. Literary Conventions On the friendly epistle, see Taylor, “Friendly Epistle in Russian Poetry.” Taylor notes that wh ...

poet, also a woman poet of genius, but one for whom there is no place in soci- ety. I found only one allusion to the Greek Corin ...

manakh, Utreniaia zaria(S. Pb.: Tip A. Pliushara, 1840 ), 436. In the poem the spirit of a dead baby chastises the speaker for h ...

Hesse, “Reading Signatures: Female Authorship and Revolutionary Law in France, 1750–1850,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 22 , no. 3 ...

n. 426 , poem no. 1 , RGALI]) is a similar male-voiced meditation on the impor- tance of the eternal. Pavlova wrote three cross- ...

wounded in battle. Maikov translated three poems by Sappho (“Zachem venkom iz list’ev lavra” [Why like a wreath from laurel leav ...

unworldly, inspired woman, who has experienced great suffering in the world. See also “Prochtia stikhotvoreniia molodoi zhenshch ...

37 .Michael Wachtel argues that this poem should be understood as a “re- joinder to Pushkin’s [ballad] ‘Black Shawl’” (“Chernaia ...

naia gazeta 39 (Sept. 25 , 1847 ): 613 ; Moskvitianin 15 ( 1853 ): 110 ; Illiustratsiia(Jan. 2 , 1858 ): 7 , respectively. 41 .O ...

context established by his predecessors” ( 241 ). To which Russ might reply, But what if that “larger literary tradition” is unu ...

( 1813 ), both works described as epics of “visionary and libertarian subversion” (Curran, Poetic Form, 173 ). The only epic her ...

ografii Karoliny Pavlovoi,” in Sobranie sochinenii, by Karolina Pavlova (Moskva: K. F. Nekrasov, 1915 ), xxxi–xxxii. 20 .On lite ...

28 .Shakhova, “Perst Bozhii” ( 1839 ), “Strashnyi krasavets” ( 1840 ), and “Izg- nannik” ( 1840 ), in Povesti v stikhakh Elisave ...

36 .Pavlova wrote poetry in German and French, as well as Russian, and translated poetry from German, French, Polish, and Englis ...