I dedicated my lyre to my people. Poems

The collection includes lyrical poems Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (1821-1877), the Great Poet, whose name in the history of Russian literature stands next to the names A. S. Pushkin and M. Yu. Lermontov. Arriving in St. Petersburg from Yaroslavl at a sixteen age with a notebook of poems and hope no more than ten days ... Have a heap of gold and a loud name, Nekrasov came to popular recognition not immediately. He tried himself in prose and drama, wrote theatrical and bibliographic reviews, - editorial activity, however, remained faithful to the whole life, heading the largest magazines of those years - "contemporary" and "domestic notes". Over the years, nevertheless, he earned a reputation between the first Russian! poet ". So, Turgenev wrote about the new collection of Nekrasov, that his poem, "assembled in one focus, are burned. At the beginning of the 20th century, Creativity Nekrasov became interested in glorified silver century poets. M. Voloshin said that "Nekrasov Poet ingenious, and technician he owns great, he ends N. Gumilev: A wonderful deep breath, power over the selected way, wonderful phonetics", continuing Derzhavin and Pushkin