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A slim volume of five narrative poems
The Gypsies: Did Merimee's Carmen the acknowledged source of Bizet's opera owe much to this poem?
The Bridgegroom: an original in the same meter of the Germanic ballad Lenore by Gottfreid Burger, which was based on the Scottish ballad,Sweet William's Ghost.
Count Nulin: A parody of Shakespeare's poem The Rape of Lucrece. Pushkin wondered what would have happened if Lucrece had slapped Tarquin's face...He decided to parody both Shakespeare and history (brave man ...more
The Gypsies: Did Merimee's Carmen the acknowledged source of Bizet's opera owe much to this poem?
The Bridgegroom: an original in the same meter of the Germanic ballad Lenore by Gottfreid Burger, which was based on the Scottish ballad,Sweet William's Ghost.
Count Nulin: A parody of Shakespeare's poem The Rape of Lucrece. Pushkin wondered what would have happened if Lucrece had slapped Tarquin's face...He decided to parody both Shakespeare and history (brave man ...more
