inevitably, after an age of intellectual refinement, humanity will lose its vital sap and die from sexual impotence. Then earth will be restored to her primaeval majesty (The Last Death, 1827). This philosophy, allying itself to his profound temperamental melancholy, produced poems of extraordinary majesty, which can compare with nothing in the poetry of pessimism, except Leopardi. Such is the crushing majesty of that long ode to dejection, Autumn (1837), splendidly rhetorical in the grandest manner of classicism, though with a pronouncedly personal accent. References Attribution External links Collection of Poems by Yevgeny Baratynsky (English Translations) Poems of Yevgeny Baratynsky Recordings of Yevgeny Baratynsky's poems Darkness and Light: The Life of Russia's Philosopher-Poet, Evgeny Abramovich Boratynski, by Grant Hayter-Menzies Evgeny Baratynsky: The Skull (English translation by Ilya Bernstein) 1800 births 1844 deaths People from Tambov Oblast People from Kirsanovsky Uyezd Russian nobility Russian male poets Romantic poets Russian philosophers Writers of Gothic fiction 18th-century people from the Russian Empire 19th-century writers from the Russian Empire 19th-century poets from the Russian Empire Male writers from the Russian Empire Poets from the Russian Empire 19th-century philosophers 19th-century male writers from the Russian Empire Burials at Tikhvin Cemetery