Pyramid of Cestius an essential sight for many who undertook the Grand Tour in the 18th and 19th centuries. It was much admired by architects, becoming the primary model for pyramids built in the West during this period. Percy Bysshe Shelley described it as "one keen pyramid with wedge sublime" in "Adonaïs", his 1821 elegy for John Keats. In turn the English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy saw the pyramid during a visit to the nearby Protestant Cemetery in 1887 and was inspired to write a poem, "Rome: At the Pyramid of Cestius near the Graves of Shelley and Keats", in which he
Eastern poem on the death of Pushkin Eastern poem on the death of Pushkin "Eastern poem on the death of Pushkin" is an elegy of Azerbaijani author Mirza Fatali Akhundov, composed in 1837 in Persian. This poem was his first published work. In 1837 Akhundov prepared a Russian prose translation of his poem, and his friend Bestuzhev a versified one. First time the poem was published in the journal "Moskovskiy Telegraph" (Akhundov's translation). The poem was also published in the journal "Moskovskiĭ Nablyudatel", with an editorial note welcoming the poem as a tribute not merely to Pushkin but to Russian culture as a whole. Translation of Bestuzhev