Help with a quote

[A. Tosi]

Many thanks!
Alessandra
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Douglas Greenfield wrote:

> It's from "Selected Passages," Ch. 31, on poetry after Derzhavin.
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> A. Tosi wrote:
>
>> Dear all - I'm trying to re-trace a quote - does anybody know where Gogol'
>> wrote this?
>> 'When our poetry left the church, it suddenly found itself at a ball... The
>> Russian language acquired a freedom and adroitness at flying from subject
>> to subject..'
>> Many thanks!
>> Alessandra Tosi (Cambridge, UK)
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     Dr. Alessandra Tosi
     Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Slavonic Studies,
     University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA, UK
     Research Associate, Clare Hall College, Herschel Road, Cambridge
     CB3 9AL, UK
     Research Associate to the Reception of British and Irish Authors in
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