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38 STUDY OUTLINE ON XIII RECENT POETRY, DRAMA, SATIRE AND FICTION 1. Poetry, drama and satire. a Nikolay Aleksyeevich Nekrasov, 1821-1877. He is essentially the poet of the people; ... he feels with them, and their beliefs, hopes and griefs are his own. Charles Edward Turner. (1) His life. (2) His poems. (3) Lyric poets other than Nekrasov. b Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovski, 1823-1886. Every likeness he draws has been carefully elab- orated feature by feature, every character he intro- duces is a study from life; and the result is that, according to the universal testimony of his coun- trymen, his plays are thoroughly faithful transcripts of the Russian domestic life of the present day. Edinburgh Review. (1) His life. (2) His dramas. (3) His influence on the Russian stage. (4) Modern Russian drama. c Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov (Nikolay Evgrafo- vich Shchedrin, pseud.), 1826-1889. The most spiteful of all writers that ever lived, one of the greatest satirists of all time, at the same time a literary genius of the first rank, is the Rus- sian Swift, Michael Saltykov. A. Bruckner. (1) His life. (2) His writings. Recommended Reading The story of a lost conscience. M. Saltykov. In Current Liter- ature. 40 : 340-2. March '06. Wiener. Anthology of Russian literature, v. 2, p. 348-61, 369-85.