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...also showed their inability to understand the first principles of gentlemanly behavior. Of course those who made themselves noticeable last evening probably did not realize that they were giving a pitiable confession of ignorance, in so far as they could not appreciate Prince Wolkonsky's charmingly poetic talk upon Russian literature...
...second of his lectures on "Russian History and Literature," Prince Wolkonsky had a closely attentive and appreciative audience. The object of the lecture was that period of Russian intellectual culture when it 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...
...gave an account of one of Poushkin's most characteristic creations-a novel in verse: "Eugene Oneguin,"-with an interesting sketch of the literary aspect presented by Russian society of the first decade of our century. The chief chacteristic of Poushkin's lyric poetry was harmoniousness and many sidedness. Equally excellent, said the speaker, was the poet in picturing human sorrow or human joy. One never goes without the other, and, to express the poet's complexity, the lecturer characterizes it as "pouring rain with brilliant sunshine." He endeavored to give his hearers an impression of Poushkin's language...
Prince Serge Wolkonsky will give the second of his series of lectures on Russian History and Literature tonight in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock. The topics for the lecture will...
Lecture. Russian History and Literature. II. 1779-1837. Prince Serge Wolkonsky. Sanders Theatre...