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Although a man of many talents??ovelist, dramatist, historian??t was as a poet that Pushkin saw himself first and foremost, and it is as a poet that his unique talent is most apparent. This volume contains all of Pushkin's lyrical poetry by a wide range of translators, and charts his evolution as a writer, covering themes from love to art, religion, and philosophy in compositions such as The Monument, Night, The Demons, and The Poet. Pushkin was the first writer to embrace Russian as a literary language in its own right, as well as Russian rather than classical subjects for his poetry.