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'''Ivan Ivanovich Kozlov''' ({{langx|ru|Иван Иванович Козлов}}; {{OldStyleDate|22 April|1779|11 April}}{{spaced ndash}}{{OldStyleDate|11 February|1840|30 January}}) was a Russian Romantic poet and translator. As [[D. S. Mirsky]] noted, "his poetry appealed to the easily awakened emotions of the sentimental reader rather than to the higher poetic receptivity".

== Biography ==
Kozlov was born in [[Moscow]], of noble ancestry, in 1779.  He began writing poetry only after 1820, when he became blind. He reached the success equal to that of [[Alexander Pushkin]] with ''The Monk'' (1825), a verse tale in which the darkness of a [[Lord Byron|Byronic]] hero is sentimentalized and redeemed by ultimate repentance. ''The Monk'' produced as large a family of imitations as either of Pushkin's Romantic poems. Kozlov's two other narrative poems, ''Princess Natalie Dolgorukov'' (1828), a sentimental variation on the theme of the misfortunes of [[Peter II of Russia|Peter II]]'s bride, and ''The Mad Girl'' (1830), met with a somewhat diminished success. Today the only poem of his still universally remembered is an exceptionally faithful translation of [[Thomas Moore]]'s ''[[Evening Bell (song)|Evening Bells]]'', entitled ''Вечерний звон'', a popular Russian song. He also translated ''The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna'' by [[Charles Wolfe (poet)|Charles Wolfe]] (''Не бил барабан перед смутным полком''), and this text also became very popular in Russia.

Ivan Kozlov died in [[Saint Petersburg]] in 1840, aged 60.

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