Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2021
The son of an impoverished nobleman of German ancestry, Delvig was a schoolfriend of Pushkin’s at the lyceum (or lycée) of Tsarskoe Selo, and remained his friend thereafter: “no one in the world was dearer to me than Delvig,” Pushkin wrote. A post as a librarian left him free to write and edit literary journals, and he had some influence as a critic. His poetry consisted mainly of sonnets, idylls, and “Russian songs” based on popular verse. As a sonneteer he is praised by Pushkin in his own sonnet on sonnets (p. x).
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