text:  Some were alarmed at the novelty of the language others shocked at the irregularity of the versification and others again at the occasional comic passages introduced into the poem: but all forgot or all dared not confess that this was the first Russian poetry which had ever been greedily and universally _read_; and that until the appearance of "Ruslan and Liudmila " poetry and tiresomeness had been in Russia convertible terms