Pushkin's 'Prorok'

[Olga Meerson]

Robertjan,

The best commentary on the matter, I think, was given by Tsiavlovskij, who also cites others claiming that the quatrain had nothing to do with the poem. But he shows why and when it belonged, and why it stopped belonging (when the image needed to become more archetypal, that of poet as prophet). Tsiavlovsky's overview and own hypothesis are excellent, I think. Here is a link to his commentary:

http://palomnic.org/bibl_lit/obzor/pyshkin/prorok/

o


----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Chandler <kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM>
Date: Monday, August 18, 2008 1:12 am
Subject: [SEELANGS] Pushkin's 'Prorok'

> Dear all,
> 
> There are a number of memoirs quoting the following lines, or lines 
> similarto them:
> ????????, ????????, ?????? ??????,
> ? ??????? ???? ????????,
> ???, ? ? ??????? ????? ???
> ?  ?. ?. ?????
> 
> Vosstan’, vosstan’, prorok Rossii,
> V pozorny rizy oblekis’,
> Idi, is s verviem bkrug vyi  (OR ‘I s verv’em vkrug smirennoi vyi
> K U.G. yavis'.
> 
> These lines are understood to be either from an early draft of 
> ‘Prorok’ or
> from a separate, related poem.  ?.?.  Is understood to stand for 
> ‘Ubiitsegnusnomu’.
> 
> In a fine essay in Bethea’s THE PUSHKIN HANDBOOK, Sergey Davydov 
> argues that
> these lines are probably not by Pushkin at all.  Is this view now 
> generallyaccepted?
> 
> Vsego dobrogo,
> 
> Robert
> 
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