The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-09-01

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~ this time was Il al mpl"I-antiN er"tir
nature. From ttis point nf view L~"r,u"nto'
recalls lie Mus-et. Not entirely, how
eve. id hr p.slct his mel" tusl inter.
es's Between the ages ui II and II he
wrote moe. of hs n,rlS lyrical "em-.
besides rhe Demon. I-adil Bcy hi-torl.
cal tales and plays.
Al this time he made few efforts To- see
himself IN print. His attitude. indeed.
toward his early work vas exceedingly ,ritI.
cal. and IL was not until PrIsnkiu's death in
1877 provoked a passionate Uurburrl Of grief
and resentment that ~lcrmonJov became
generally known ~ a poet. For The con-
Guiding passage - 'he eleSy on Push
kin. in which he a~rostrophiaei tHo in
iuential members of the court circle
a. the vain descendants of q line fsmcl
only for ia hssens-s, mmrlerers Of genius
truth aud fame" he was eyiIed TO the
Caucasus. Through the efforts u his
grandmother his term ul uaui-hrnent was
I~eluceltoa year. hut even 'hisb brief respite
from the atmosphere ~ intrigue and dissira-
ton proved beneficial TO his literary work.
He now revived the charm 81 the old Russian
legends with extraordinary success in his
Ballads Of he Car Ivan Nassilie, ich." In
1880 he wrote several roens, Including
"Mlsieri, a Georgian Tale" and a Hero Of
Our bay" which although not "a poem but a
novel can no more be overlooked than can
Alfred do Nlusset's Memories dun fnfant
du Steele" In another poem, The Dream"
written some time before his fatal duel. is
f~oreshadowcd with extraordinary accuracy
his own tragic end.
In an analysis Of his works oar author
says that save for one or two poems which
scho the style of pushkin Iermontov was
not greatly indebted 10 his fellow country
men. He read assiduously Goethe. Schiller.
Heine, Cowper. Scott and. above all. Byron.
or Shelley most of his b~iographers seem To
be agreed tina he knew nothing whatever,
yet AZ a poe, he shares with Shelley the
ineffable charm and feryid cloquencc that
are the insignia of the very elect. Goethe q