My soul is dark...

…his wit and poetry are so bright that in their shine everything that is dark in his nature is lost. They even contradict him, as they prove that the strength and beauty of human nature can overcome everything that, on the surface, seems incompatible with it, — wrote Percy Bysshe Shelley about the works of the great English Romantic poet Lord Byron. The rebellious, freedom-loving spirit of his poetry had a tremendous influence on world literature and became a source of inspiration for many Russian poets who translated Lord Byron's works. Love and death, spiritual freedom and dark egoism, the music of verse, striking in its sincerity and diversity, merged in his poetry into a single harmony. The collection My soul is dark... features selected poems translated by M. Lermontov, A. Blok, V. Bryusov and others.