INDEX OF TEXTS BY BATYUSHKOV CITED OR DISCUSSED

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POEMS

A Bard at the Circle of Lovers of the Russian Word 99–100

Advice to Friends 25–28

‘Am I condemned to hear just drums of war?’ 38

Answer to Gnedich 52–53

Apparition, The 75–76

Bacchante 32–33

‘Believe me, it’s not easy…’ 38–39

‘Blizzards and frosts have come and gone’ (Flowers for our Horace) 163

Convalescence 43, 137

Crossing of the Rhine—1814, The 106–111, 173

Dreaming 23, 47, 162, 185–86

Elegy (Memories: A Fragment) 138–42

Elegy from Tibullus 118–21

Elysium 80–82

Epistle from a Practical Sage to the Sage of Astafievo and the Pushkinistic Sage 166–67

Epistle to I. M. Muravyov-Apostol 18

Epistle to my Poems 24

Epistle to Turgenev 163–65

‘Eternal youth is his’ 166

‘Flatterer of my lazy muse’ 60–61

For N’s Birthday 80

‘For them love pours out’ (On the Women of Paris) 112–13

Friendship 30, 80

From the Greek Anthology 195–202

‘I honestly don’t know the date’ 165

‘I’m in the land of mists and rains’ 125–26

‘I’m very strangely made’ 224–25

Imitation of Horace 220–22

Imitations of the Ancients 201, 210–13, 218, 221

Inscription for a Shepherdess’s Tombstone 75

Inscription for the Tomb of Malisheva’s daughter 209–10

Last Spring, The 133–35

Madagascar Songs 51–52

Muses’ Arbor, The 19, 181–82

My Guardian Spirit 137

My Penates 3–4, 84–89, 172

‘Now I can break the chain of silence’ 44–46

On the Death of Pnin 33–34

On the Death of the Wife of F. F. Kokoshkin 78–79 152

On the Ruins of a Castle in Sweden 121–25, 162

‘Pamphilus is merry at table’ 162

Parting (‘In vain I left behind my father’s country’) 137–38

Parting (‘Propped on his sabre…’) 100–102

Prisoner, The 113–14

‘Reader, have you not heard’ 217–18

Remembering (Memories of 1807) 39–42, 199

Return of Odysseus, The 127

Rivalry of Hesiod and Homer, The 172–73

Russian Troops Crossing the Neman on the First of January 1813 102–103

‘Sails on the water…’ 161–62

Shade of a Friend vii, 105, 115–18, 171

Tasso Dying 106, 171–81

Tauris 142

‘The Grey-Beard who is always flying’ 72–73

‘There is delight too in the forests’ wildness’ 208–209

To a Friend 152–55

To Dashkov 95–98, 171

To Gnedich 31–32

To my Friends 10–11, 147, 149, 178

To Nikita 182–85

To Petin 42, 82–84

To Tasso 48–50

To the Author of the History of the Russian State 202–203

To Zhukovsky 91–94

Torrent, The 76–78

Traveller and the Stay-at-Home, The 18, 128–31, 172

True Patriot, The 37

Vision on the Banks of Lethe

Waking 144–46

‘Who is this with the knotted brows?’ (Inscription for a Portrait of Vyazemsky) 67

‘You are Sappho…’ 54

‘You wake, o Baiae, from the tomb’ 23, 207

‘Zhukovsky, time swallows everything’ 215

PROSE (NOT INCLUDING PRIVATE LETTERS)

A Journey to the Château de Cirey 111–12

An Evening at Kantemir’s 14, 160–61 192

Ariosto and Tasso 22

A Walk to the Academy of Fine Art 131–32

Extracts from the Letters of a Russian Officer in Finland 47–48, 121

Griselda. A Tale from Boccaccio 171

Letter to I. M. Muravyov-Apostol: On the Writings of M. Muravyov 131

Memories of Petin 37–38, 82, 98–99, 104, 147–48

Memory of Places, Battles and Travels 104, 146

Notebook of 1810 70–71

Notebook of 1817 (‘Other People’s Stuff is my Treasure’) 5–7, 36, 38, 189–95

On the Character of Lomonosov 15, 148

Some Thoughts on Morality, founded on Philosophy and Religion 150–51

Some Thoughts on the Poet and Poetry 17–18, 148–49

Speech on the Influence of Light Verse on the Language 159–60

Strolls through Moscow 64–66