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This is the first critical biography of Laurence Binyon (), one of the most remarkable scholar-artists in British cultural history....
This is the first critical biography of Laurence Binyon (), one of the most remarkable scholar-artists in British cultural history.
Pushkin: A Biography
September 1, 2010
The best biography I have ever read, totally absorbing. Pushkin was always falling in and out of love.
His most famous lyric:
I loved you: love still, perhaps,
Is not quite extinguished in my soul;
But let it no longer alarm you;
I do not want to distress you in any way.
I loved you silently, hopelessly,
Tortured now by shyness, now by jealousy;
I loved you so sincerely, so tenderly,
May God grant you be so loved by another.
Another of my favourites is quoted in the book:
What good is my name to you?
It will die, like the melancholy sound
Of a wave breaking on a distant shore,
Like night’s noises in the dense forest.
On the album page
It will leave a dead trace, like
The pattern of an epitaph on a tombstone
In an unknown language.
What good is it?
His most famous lyric:
I loved you: love still, perhaps,
Is not quite extinguished in my soul;
But let it no longer alarm you;
I do not want to distress you in any way.
I loved you silently, hopelessly,
Tortured now by shyness, now by jealousy;
I loved you so sincerely, so tenderly,
May God grant you be so loved by another.
Another of my favourites is quoted in the book:
What good is my name to you?
It will die, like the melancholy sound
Of a wave breaking on a distant shore,
Like night’s noises in the dense forest.
On the album page
It will leave a dead trace, like
The pattern of an epitaph on a tombstone
In an unknown language.
What good is it?
Long forgotten
In new, stormy emotions,
It will not evoke in your soul
Peaceful, tender memories.
But... on a day of grief, in the silence
Pronounce it, pining;
Say: someone remembers me,
There