Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845

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Various. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845

PÚSHKIN, THE RUSSIAN POET

No. I

Sketch of Púshkin's Life and Works, by Thomas B. Shaw, B.A. of Cambridge, Adjunct Professor of English Literature in the Imperial Alexander Lyceum, Translator of "The Heretic," &c. &c

THE LAST HOURS OF PÚSHKIN

Letter from Jukóvskii to Sergei Púshkin, the Poet's Father

THE NOVEL AND THE DRAMA

MARSTON; OR, THE MEMOIRS OF A STATESMAN

Part XVII

LEBRUN'S LAWSUIT

CENNINO CENNINI ON PAINTING

Translated from the Italian by Mrs Merrifield

ÆSTHETICS OF DRESS

No. IV

Minor Matters

SUSPIRIA DE PROFUNDIS: BEING A SEQUEL TO THE CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER

Part I. Concluded

The Palimpsest

Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow

The Apparition of the Brocken

Finale to Part I.—Savannah-la-Mar

HANNIBAL.21

STANZAS WRITTEN AFTER THE FUNERAL OF ADMIRAL SIR DAVID MILNE, G.C.B

STANZAS TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS HOOD

NORTH'S SPECIMENS OF THE BRITISH CRITICS

No. V

Dryden on Chaucer.—Concluded

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Among the many striking analogies which exist between the physical and intellectual creations, and exhibit the uniform method adopted by Supreme Wisdom in the production of what is most immortal and most precious in the world of thought, as well as of what is most useful and beautiful in the world of matter, there is one which cannot fail to arise before the most actual and commonplace imagination. This is, the great apparent care exhibited by nature in the preparation of the nidus—or matrix, if we may so style it—in which the genius of the great man is to be perfected and elaborated. Nature creates nothing in sport; and as much foresight—possibly even more—is displayed in the often complicated and intricate machinery of concurrent causes which prepare the development of great literary genius, as in the elaborate in-foldings which protect from injury the germ of the future oak, or the deep-laid and mysterious bed, and the unimaginable ages of growth and hardening, necessary to the water of the diamond, or to the purity of the gold.

Púshkin is undoubtedly one of that small number of names, which have become incorporated and identified with the literature of their country; at once the type and the expression of that country's nationality—one of that small but illustrious bard, whose writings have become part of the very household language of their native land—whose lightest words may be incessantly heard from the lips of all classes; and whose expressions may be said, like those of Shakspeare, of Molière, and of Cervantes, to have become the natural forms embodying the ideas which they have expressed, and in expressing, consecrated. In a word, Púshkin is undeniably and essentially the great national poet of Russia.

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On leaving Odessa, (in 1824,) Púshkin, who appears to have loved the sea with all the fervour of Shelley himself, bade farewell to the waves with which he had communed so earnestly, and whose deep voices his verse so nobly echoed, in some grand stanzas "To the Sea," of which a translation will be given in a subsequent part.

It is to this epoch that we must ascribe the first outline of the historical tragedy to which we have alluded; but which did not appear till a much later period. We shall recur to this work when we reach the date of its completion.

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