text:  These poets are emphatically and essentially the poets of the young: the "_white soul_" of youth as yet untinged with the colouring reflected from its own peculiar fantasy or the results of reading mirrors faithfully the fairy splendour of their magic style even as the Alpine snow the rosy light of dawn: and Pushkin with the natural desire of imitating what he so well knew how to admire conceived the happy thought of transporting Armida and Oberon to a scenery admirably adapted for their reproduction--to the world of ancient Russia