text:  Pushkin is undoubtedly one of that small number of names which have become incorporated and identified with the literature of their country; at once the type and the expression of that country's nationality--one of that small but illustrious bard whose writings have become part of the very household language of their native land--whose lightest words may be incessantly heard from the lips of all classes; and whose expressions may be said like those of Shakspeare of Moliere and of Cervantes to have become the natural forms embodying the ideas which they have expressed and in expressing consecrated