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"Scorn not the Sonnet": pushkin and wordsworth.(Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, William Wordsworth)(Critical Essay)

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From: Wordsworth Circle
Date: 20030322
Author:Ober, Kenneth H.; Ober, Warren U.

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 a sonnet closely modeled on one of Wordsworth's. Pushkin's three sonnets--four, if the "Elegy" in seven rhymed iambic pentameter couplets is included--were written in 1830. Though not a line-by-line translation of Wordsworth's "Scorn not the sonnet; Critic, you have frowned," one sonnet ...

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