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CHAPTER VIII. SEVENTH PERIOD, FROM PUSHKIN TO THE WRITERS OF THE FORTIES. Even Karamzin's vast influence on his contemporaries cannot be compared with that exercised by Pushkin on the literature of the '20's and '30's of the nineteenth century; and no Russian writer ever effected so mighty a change in literature as Pushkin.
Among other things, his influence brought to life many powerful and original talents, which would not have ventured to enter the literary career without Pushkin's friendly support and encouragement.
He was remarkably amiable in his relations with all contemporary writers (except certain journalists in St.Petersburg and Moscow), and treated with especial respect three poets of his day, Delvig, Baratynsky, and Yazykoff.
He even exaggerated their merits, exalting the work of the last two above his own, and attributing great significance to Delvig's most insignificant poems and articles.
Hence their names have become so closely connected with his, that it is almost impossible to mention him without mentioning them. Baron Anton Antonovitch Delvig (1798-1831) the descendant of a Baltic Provinces noble, was one of Pushkin's comrades in the Lyceum, and published his first collection of poems in 1829. Evgeny Abramovitch Baratynsky (1800-1844) came of a noble family of good standing.
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