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Lermontov
[ lair-muhn-tawf, -tof; Russian lyer-muhn-tuhf ]
noun
- Mi·kha·il Yu·rie·vich [myi-, kh, uh-, yeel, , yoo, -, r, yi-vyich], 1814–41, Russian poet and novelist.
Lermontov
/ ˈljɛrməntəf /
noun
- LermontovMikhail Yurievich18141841MRussianWRITING: novelistWRITING: poet Mikhail Yurievich (mixaˈil ˈjurjɪvitʃ). 1814–41, Russian novelist and poet: noted esp for the novel A Hero of Our Time (1840)
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Human love and happiness fall second to art: “Life is unimportant,” says Lermontov.
If you are really so attracted to Byronism, why not have chosen a suitable quotation from Lermontov?
This is the very reason why the Byronian influence, at the time of Pushkin and Lermontov, lasted such a short time.
In anger, of course, there has been a progress compared with L—n, even compared with Lermontov.
Here was incarcerated the poet-prince Odoevsky, about whose early death the banished Lermontov wrote so tender an elegy.
Lermontov published only one small collection of poems in 1840.
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