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Tyutchev at 25

Fyodor Tyutchev is customarily ranked half a notch below Pushkin and Lermontov in the Russian literary tradition — along with Afanasy Fet (Foeth), the last of the Golden Age of Russian poetry. Ask the wise, and you may hear that…

[Tyutchev]

The clock’s inexorable strokes, Night’s agonizing tale! A language alien equally to all And clear to everyone like Conscience. Of us, who could ungrieving heed Midst universal silence The hollow groans of Time, The oracular, the parting voice? And thus…