Vladimir Lensky: A Poet

Title

Vladimir Lensky: A Poet

Subject

Eugene Onegin: "Reading Fashion"

Description

Vladimir Lensky's soulful introduction; the opposite of Onegin from personality to his longer romantic hairstyle.

Creator

Elizabeth LaFave

Source

Text: Alexander Pushkin; Eugene Onegin 
Image: E. Samokish-Sudkovsky for Eugene Onegin, 1908
           Костюм в Русский Художественной Культуре

Publisher

Text: Oxford's World Classics
Image: Большая Советская Энициклопедия

Text

«По имени Владимир Ленской,

С душою прямо геттингенской,

Красавец, в полном цвете лет,

Поклонник Канта и поэт.

Он из Германии туманной

Привёз учености плоды:

Вольнолюбивые мечты,

Дух пылкий и довольно странный,

Всегда восторженную речь

И кудри черные до плеч» (2, VI, 37).


“Vladimir Lensky, just returning

From Göttingen with soulful yearning,

Was in his prime—a handsome youth

And poet filled with Kantian truth.

From misty Germany our squire

Had carried back the fruits of art:

A freedom-loving, noble heart,

A spirit strange but full of fire,

An always bold, impassioned speech,

And raven locks of shoulder reach” (Chapter 2, Stanza 6, Page 37). 

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Date Added
September 13, 2017
Collection
"Reading" Fashion in A. Pushkin's Eugene Onegin: Word as Image in 1820s Imperial Russia
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Citation
Elizabeth LaFave, “Vladimir Lensky: A Poet,” Collections @ ECU, accessed April 25, 2024, http://collections.ecu.edu/items/show/599.