Mikhail Lermontov, by John Mersereau, Jr. Southern Illinois University Press, $4.50.
… This delirium
Obsessed my mind for many years. And then,
Haziing disowned my other dreams as worthless,
I rid myself of it by means of verses.
– Lermontov, A Fairy-Tale for Children (1840)
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