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The Philomathean society of the University of Pennsylvania & Department of Slavic languages

RUSSIAN DEAD POETS' SOCIETY

club of the (future) lovers of Russian Poetry cordially invites you to its second meeting

Thursday November 17 at 6pm; Philomathean Society, Library, College Hall

PUSHKIN'S SPIRIT, a lecture and discussion

Pushkin is an extraordinary and, perhaps, unique phenomenon of the Russian spirit...
N.V. Gogol

- You know, yesterday I took bus #1 and driving up to the Donskoy Monastery I met Pushkin himself! - It is impossible! - Why? - Because that bus doesn't go to the Donskoy Monastery.
A very old joke

PLAN:

  • An intellectual warm-up: rhythm, Russian prosody
  • Why Pushkin? Poems. Onegin's stanza.
  • Reading a poem