In October 1909 Bunin received his second Pushkin Prize for "Poems 1903–1906" and translations of (Lord Byron's "Cain", and parts of Longfellow's "The Golden Legend"). He was elected a member of the Russian Academy the same year. In Bunin, The Academy crowns "not a daring innovator, not an adventurous searcher but arguably the last gifted pupil of talented teachers who's kept and preserved... all the most beautiful testaments of their school," wrote critic Aleksander Izmailov, formulating the conventional view of the time. It was much later that Bunin was proclaimed one of the most innovative Russian writers of the century.