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Originally Posted by David Callin
I find myself drawn more to Mandelstam than to Pushkin at the moment.
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Hint taken. I’ll get back to Mandelstam as soon as I can, but the pull of Pushkin is irresistable. He was compared with Byron in his day (a contemporary English reviewer even called him a pale imitation of Byron!), but in terms of his significance to literature, he’s the Russian Shakespeare.