Written in a characteristic fourteen-line stanza of iambic tetrameter with alternating feminine and masculine rhymes, this work's early plot is set in motion when writing materials are borrowed from the nurse Filipyevna.
Written in a characteristic fourteen-line stanza of iambic tetrameter with alternating feminine and masculine rhymes, this work's early plot is set in motion when writing materials are borrowed from the nurse Filipyevna. After a tumultuous nameday celebration, one of the main characters visits the title character's mansion and reads his books, concluding that his personality is an artifice constructed of the qualities of various literary heroes. The omniscient narrator alternately describes the title character as a friend and a villain, providing his characterization as an archetypal superfluous man. For ten points, name this novel in verse in which the title character kills his friend Lensky in a duel after rejecting the love of Tatyana; a work of Alexander Pushkin that was adapted as an opera by Tchaikovsky.
Written in a characteristic fourteen-line stanza of iambic tetrameter with alternating feminine and masculine rhymes, this work's early plot is set in motion when writing materials are borrowed from the nurse Filipyevna.
{Eugene Onegin} (or {Yevgeny Onegin})