Aleksandr Pushkin continues to exert an enormous influence on Russian culture and literature more than a century and a half after his death. The impact he has made bears witness to the enormous scope of his talent as well as its continuing appeal to...

The Russian poet and prose writer Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837) ranks as the country's greatest poet. He not only brought Russian poetry to its highest excellence but also had a decisive influence on Russian literature in the 19th and 20th...

In 1831, when Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837) asked a friend to have a St. Petersburg bookseller "send me Crabbe, Wodsworth [sic], Southey, and Schakspear [sic]" (Shaw, 2:482), he had already read Wordsworth, with sympathetic comprehension, for during the previous year he had written...

Authors, from Milton to Pushkin, Baudelaire to Grace Paley have used brand names for watches, wine and cereal to elevate emotional intensity in their poetry. Baudelaire did not just prefer wine to the taste of his mistress's lips. He had Nuits St Georges on...

In the following essay, Debreczeny discusses innovative developments in the narrative technique of Pushkin's prose fiction.

In the following essay, Briggs presents a critical survey of Pushkin's works, concentrating on Pushkin's relation to romanticism.

In the following essay, Debreczeny explores early commentary on Pushkin's works in relation to the evolution of Russian literary criticism.