Abstract

In the article, evidence is presented to support the thesis that B. L. Pasternak’s cycle of poems dedicated to Pushkin, A Theme with Variations, which quite obviously had suggested the title for the poet’s fourth book of poetry, Themes and Variations, originated as a poetic response to V. F. Khodasevich’s poem Episode, that the latter read in late January 1918 at a gathering that came to be known as the Meeting of Poets of Two Generations.

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