Complete Collection of Long Poems by Pushkin

Author: Pushkin
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799–1837) led a life of trials and triumphs, a life of abundant achievements and brilliance, a life tested by love and hatred, blood and fire, life and death. Although he only lived for thirty-eight years and had a creative career spanning only twenty-three years, he left behind over 800 lyric poems, 80,000 lines of poetry, and over 2 million words of literary prose for the treasure troves of Russian and world literature, totaling over 4 million words of invaluable works (according to the statistics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and the State Publishing House in their forty-volume edition). Epic poetry holds an extremely important position in Pushkin's works. This epic not only comprehensively showcases Pushkin's writing style, techniques, brilliant creative abilities, wide range of themes, exceptional linguistic creativity, and rich linguistic usage but, more importantly, it marks a milestone in Pushkin's creative journey and the profound influence it has had on Russian literature. Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799–1837) led a life of trials and triumphs, a life of abundant achievements and brilliance, a life tested by love and hatred, blood and fire, life and death. Although he only lived for thirty-eight years and had a creative career spanning only twenty-three years, he left behind over 800 lyric poems, 80,000 lines of poetry, and over 2 million words of literary prose for the treasure troves of Russian and world literature, totaling over 4 million words of invaluable works (according to the statistics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and the State Publishing House in their forty-volume edition). Epic poetry holds an extremely important position in Pushkin's works. This epic not only comprehensively showcases Pushkin's writing style, techniques, brilliant creative abilities, wide range of themes, exceptional linguistic creativity, and rich linguistic usage but, more importantly, it marks a milestone in Pushkin's creative journey and the profound influence it has had on Russian literature.