РОССІЙСКАЯ АНІПОЛОГІЯ.

SPECIMENS

OF

THE RUSSIAN POETS:

WITH PRELIMINARY REMARKS
AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES.

Baub,bantnremymb Xapumbe
Dezanepmrible bioreyou!
X banu zgr6c6 bkymaro
Bocmopu Thiepugt,
U be pagocmu Czbibaro:
O Myzbe! x Thumb!

БАТЮШКовъ.

TRANSLATED BY

JOHN BOWRING, F. L. S.

London:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR:

SOLD BY ROWLAND HUNTER, ST. PAUL'S

CHURCH-YARD.

1821.

THIS book solicits more indulgence than it is likely to obtain. It is not its object to secure eulogies for the poets of Russia, but to exhibit in its different characteristics one branch of the infant literature of an extraordinary and powerful nation ;to remove in some degree the too general ignorance which prevails in this country as to the state of letters in the north of Europe, and to ascertain how far similar efforts to introduce to English readers the bards of other countries, who have as yet found no interpreter, would probably meet with encouragement.