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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2018
It was a wintry evening in 1911. The weekly Wednesday gathering at the “tower”, the residence of the erudite poet Vyacheslav Ivanov, was in full swing. Here was represented the flower of the St. Petersburg poetical world. Poets well established, those less established, and the beginners recited in turn and awaited the verdict of the host. Usually this verdict was politely deadly. The sentence thus pronounced was mitigated only by the realization that it was always to the point and always just. Hence even the slightest approval was a triumph for the victim.
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26 Tr. by the author.
27 Tr. by Shelley.
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