Golden Age of Russian Poetry (orAge ofPushkin) is the name traditionally applied by philologists to the first half of the 19th century.[1] This characterization was first used by the critic Peter Pletnev in 1824 who dubbed the epoch "the Golden Age of Russian Literature."[2]
The most significant Russian poetPushkin (inNabokov's words, the greatest poet this world was blessed with since the time ofShakespeare[3]) and some scholars even refer to this period as the "Age of Pushkin".[2]Mikhail Lermontov andFyodor Tyutchev are generally regarded as two most important Romantic poets after Pushkin.[4] Other poets includePyotr Vyazemsky,Anton Delvig,Kondraty Ryleyev,Vasily Zhukovsky andKonstantin Batyushkov. Pushkin himself, however, consideredEvgeny Baratynsky to be the finest poet of his day.[citation needed]
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