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Alexander Pushkin (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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Although Alexander Pushkin wrote in almost every genre a nineteenth century author could attempt, he was primarily a poet. In a literary career spanning twenty-four years, he published a rich and varied collection of verse. He wrote two important historical poems, three major comic poems, a half dozen verse narratives, four skazki (fairy tales in verse), and numerous lyric poems.

Pushkin’s canon contains several dramatic works: Boris Godunov (1831; English translation, 1918) is a long play, written in the manner of

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