great and small men of the early nineteenth century. A major prose work of his declining years was the biography of Denis Fonvizin. Though Vyazemsky was the journalistic leader of Russian Romanticism, there can be nothing less romantic than his early poetry: it consists either of very elegant, polished, and cold exercises on the set commonplaces of poetry, or of brilliant essays in word play, where pun begets pun, and conceit begets conceit, heaping up mountains of verbal wit. His later poetry became more universal and essentially classical. Bibliography Newerkla, Stefan Michael. Das irische Geschlecht O'Reilly und seine Verbindungen zu Österreich und Russland [The Irish O'Reilly family and their connections to Austria and Russia], in: Diachronie – Ethnos – Tradition: Studien zur slawischen Sprachgeschichte [Diachrony – Ethnos – Tradition: Studies in Slavic Language History]. Eds. Jasmina Grković-Major, Natalia B. Korina, Stefan M. Newerkla, Fedor B. Poljakov, Svetlana M. Tolstaja. Brno: Tribun EU 2020; , pp. 259–279 (open access), here pp. 272–273. Венгеров С. А. Источники словаря русских писателей, т. I, СПб. 1900. Бондаренко В.В. Вяземский. М., 2004 (серия "Жизнь замечательных людей") Гинзбург А. Вяземский литератор, Сборник «Русская проза», под ред. Б. Эйхенбаума и Ю. Тынянова, Л., 1926. Грот Я., Сухомлинов М., Пономарев С., в Сборнике 2 отделения Академии наук, т. XX, 1880. Кульман H. Вяземский как критик. Известия Академии наук. книга 1. 1904. Собрание сочинений Вяземского в 12 тт. СПб. 1878—1886, его переписка, «Остафьевский архив», т. I—V. Спасович В. Вяземский и его польские отношения и знакомства. Сочинения Спасовича, т. VIII, 1896. Трубачев С. С. Вяземский как писатель 20-х гг., «Исторический вестник», Ї 8, 1892. Языков Д. П. Вяземский. — М. 1904. References External links Petr Vyazemsky. Complete Works in Russian Petr Vyazemsky. Poems Poets from the Russian Empire Russian male poets Journalists from the Russian Empire Russian male journalists Male writers from the Russian Empire Members of the Russian Academy Full members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences Members of the State Council (Russian Empire) Rurikids 1792 births 1878 deaths People from the Russian Empire of Irish descent 19th-century writers from the Russian Empire Russian military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars 19th-century poets from the Russian Empire Privy Councillor (Russian Empire) Burials at Tikhvin Cemetery