Centro de Culturas Eslavas UGR

Richards D. J., Cockrell C. R. S.

Pushkin, Russia's national poet and the inspiration of the outstanding figures of Russian nineteenth-century literature, is still less generally known outside his homeland than are his Western-European counterparts, Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe; and even those English readers of Russian literature who are familiar with his works are not usually acquainted with the considerable body of Pushkin criticism which exists in Russia.