V. Friendship with Belinskij

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Introduction 7
3. TABLE OF CONTENTS 9
4. PART I. NEKRASOV'S LIFE AND LITERARY ACTIVITY
5. I. Mother and Son 13
6. II. School and University Years 16
7. III. "Dreams and Sounds" 22
8. IV. Nekrasov's Journalistic Apprenticeship 25
9. V. Friendship with Belinskij 28
10. VI. Editorship of The Contemporary, Nekrasov as a Businessman and as a Poet 42
11. VII. Editorship of the Fatherland Notes; The Waning Years 54
12. PART II. NEKRASOV'S ART
13. VIII. The Evolution of Nekrasov's Art as seen in the Mirror of Russian Criticism 61
14. IX. Pre-Emancipation Rural Russia in Nekrasov's Poems 82
15. X. Two Post-Emancipation Poems: "Peasant Children" and "The Peddlers" 106
16. XI. "Red-Nose Frost" 118
17. XII. "Who is Happy in Russia" 138
18. XIII. Nekrasov's Mother in his Poetry 189
19. Conclusion 200
20. Bibliography 203
21. Glossary 205