Download or read book Demon A Poem written by Mikhail Lermontov and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of this poem, by Mikhail Lermontov, is full of simplicity and grandeur. Satan flying through space recalls the happy time when, as a holy angel, the purest charms and sweetest privileges of heaven were his. Homeless he wanders, weary of spreading sin, and of possessing a power that encounters no opposition. Below he beholds the varied beauties of the Caucasus, its majestic mountains and pellucid rivers, and afar the rich valleys of fair Georgia; yet Nature's sweetest scenes produce no effect on him beyond a feeling of cold envy-all that he sees he hates! At last a beautiful Georgian, by name Tamara, attracts his attention, as amid her handmaids at her father's castle she joyously awaits her princely bridegroom. On beholding her, the Demon is once more conscious of the force of beauty and love. Her bridegroom, at his instigation, is attacked and slain by a band of robbers, while on his way to the nuptials, and Tamara, overcome with grief and harassed by the insidious and passion-inspiring voice of Satan, seeks refuge in a convent. Thither he follows her, and in a powerful dialogue inspires her with compassion for his forlorn hopelessness. In the embrace of the Demon she dies. As an Angel is bearing her soul to heaven, the Evil One intercepts their course, declaring-" She is his;" but the angel repulses him with the reply of mercy that Heaven is open to love. Thus again is he left, alone and hopeless in space, while the contrite soul of his victim is borne onwards to Paradise. The similarity of the subject with that of "Faust," and of the character with that of Lucifer in "Cain," will doubtless strike all at first; but on closer perusal the reader cannot help but discover, in " The Demon" of Lermontov, a character that differs in every way from the Mephistopheles of Goethe and the Lucifer of Byron. The softening effect that love is able to produce for the time being on the impersonation of all evil, is as marvelous in its conception as it is thrilling in the manner in which it is told in the Russian.

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Download or read book A Hero of Our Time written by Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов and published by Moscow : Foreign Languages Publishing House. This book was released on 1957 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Demon and Other Poems by Mikhail Lermontov written by Mikhail I︠U︡rʹevich Lermontov and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Hero of our own times From the Russian of Lermontof Now first translated into English written by Mikhail Yur'evich LERMONTOV and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Geroi Nashego Vremeni written by Mikhail I︠U︡rʹevich Lermontov and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book M Iu Lermontov written by Walter N. Vickery and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2001 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Displaying his characteristic balance between sympathy and detachment, Vickery has first provided a concise, but richly detailed account of Lermontov's brief and tragic life. His approach is above all sensible - down-to-earth and fair. Lermontov was a romantic, really the only Russian poet who fully fits that designation. Vickery understands very well the romantic ethos, but he is no romantic him self. He treats with tolerant but ironic amusement the adolescent posturing of Lermontov's early Byronism. He is less tolerant of the frequent arrogance and even cruelty in Lermontov's behavior toward those close to him, especially women. On the other hand, Vickery recognizes Lermontov's genuine longing for intimacy and affection and credits his capacity for friendship and generosity. He also effectively traces all these conflicting im pulses in Lermontov's poetry.