Word: karamsin
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...enters into the general stream of universal literature by the channel of sentimentalism and romanticism. After having given a picture of the literary horizon of western Europe at the opening of the nineteenth century, the lecturer spoke of the first two exponents of romanticism in Russia: the historian Karamsin Joukovsky. The former wrote the first Russian sentimental novels-among these being "Poor Lizzie," over which contemporaries have shed many tears. The latter was the real funnel through which romanticism invaded Russian poetry. He was the real precursor of Russia's greatest poet-Poushkin...