His poetry was founded on Byronism, like all European poetry of that day, and was also partly under the influence of the fantastic romanticism introduced by Zhukovsky.

He never developed beyond a point which was reached by Pushkin in his early days in "The Prisoner of the Caucasus," "The Gypsies," "The Fountain of Baktchesarai," and the first chapters of "Evgeny Onyegin." He wrote one very fine poem, devoted to Finland.
Nikolai Mikhailovitch Yazykoff (1803-1846) was of noble birth, and published a number of early poems in 1819.

One of his best and longest, published about 1836, was a dramatic tale of "The Fire Bird." Between 1837-1842 his "The Lighthouse," "Gastun," "Sea Bathing," "The Ship," "The Sea," and a whole series of elegies, are also very good.

Yazykoff's poetry is weaker and paler in coloring than Delvig's or Baratynsky's, yet richer than all of theirs in really incomparable outward form of the verse, and in poetical expression of thought; in fact, he was "the poet of expression," and rendered great service by his boldness and originality of language, in that it taught men to write not as all others wrote, but as it lay in their individual power to write; in other words, he inculcated individuality in literature.
The only one of the many poets of Pushkin's epoch in Russia who did not repeat and develop, in different keys, the themes of their master's poetry, was Alexander Sergyeevitch Griboyedoff (1795-1829).

He alone was independent, original, and was related to the Pushkin period as Kryloff was to the Karamzin period--merely by the accident of time, not by the contents of his work.