“Magic crystal” and “Mermaid”: to the theme of “Pushkin and Barry Cornwall”

The article continues the series of publications of the author devoted to creative dialogue A.S. Pushkin and the English poet Barry Cornwall (Barry Cornwall). Comparative analysis allows to include Cornwall’s works into circle of possible sources of Pushkin’s formula “magic crystal”; thematic, figurative and textual parallels between Pushkin’s “The Mermaid” and Barry Cornwall’s poems have been pointed out