This author wrote "your black blood won't wash away/The poet's sacred blood!"
This author wrote "your black blood won't wash away/The poet's sacred blood!" in an inflammatory elegy for a contemporary writer. Xzibit would love an essay about the "mirage" of this author, which uses A1 through A4 to track the dream within a dream within a dream within a dream of one of his poems. In that poem, this author described a man with a bullet wound slowly bleeding out in a "dale of Dagestan." In this author's major poetic work, a mopey wanderer of the Earth finds himself "alone in all the universe" after delivering a fatal kiss to Princess Tamara. In the most famous work by this author of "Demon," the protagonist's horse collapses before he can catch up to Vera; that protagonist had earlier killed Grushnitsky in a duel. For 10 points, name this Russian poet who died in a duel after being exiled to the Caucausus and wrote about the superfluous man Pechorin in A Hero of Our Time.
This author wrote "your black blood won't wash away/The poet's sacred blood!"
Mikhail Lermontov