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The extract on p. 236 is from Vladimir Nabokov’s translation of “Silentium,” by Fyodor Tyutchev, in
Three Russian Poets: Selections from Pushkin, Lermontov and Tyutchev
(New Directions, 1944). Copyright © 1944 by Vladimir Nabokov.
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