Nikolaj Nekrasov

Frontmatter -- Introduction -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PART I. NEKRASOV'S LIFE AND LITERARY ACTIVITY -- I. Mother and Son -- II. School and University Years -- III. "Dreams and Sounds" -- IV. Nekrasov's Journalistic Apprenticeship -- V. Friendship with Belinskij -- VI. Editorship of The Contemporary, Nekrasov as a Businessman and as a Poet -- VII. Editorship of the Fatherland Notes; The Waning Years -- PART II. NEKRASOV'S ART -- VIII. The Evolution of Nekrasov's Art as seen in the Mirror of Russian Criticism -- IX. Pre-Emancipation Rural Russia in Nekrasov's Poems -- X. Two Post-Emancipation Poems: "Peasant Children" and "The Peddlers" -- XI. "Red-Nose Frost" -- XII. "Who is Happy in Russia" -- XIII. Nekrasov's Mother in his Poetry -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Glossary