After becoming a kammerjunker, this author wrote a poem whose speaker says, “It's time my friends, it's time. We long for peace of heart.” Aphrodite is addressed as a “Listless Cytherean princess” in the opening line of this poet’s “Ode to Liberty.” This poet is said to have “Fell, slandered by a gossip’s dread” after the exclamation “The Bard is killed!” references his death in Mikhail Lermontov’s “Death of the Poet.” In one of this author’s poems, a character holds on to a (*) marble lion in order to avoid being swept away by a flood. Lensky invites the title character to a name day celebration in a work by this poet that uses alternating masculine and feminine rhymes. This poet wrote about Yevgeny falling in love with Parasha in the poem The Bronze Horseman. For 10 points, name this Russian poet who wrote about the title dandy’s duel in Eugene Onegin. ■END■
ANSWER: Alexander Pushkin [or Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin; accept Pushkin sonnets; prompt on Onegin stanzas with “what is the alternate name for that poetic form?”]
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