Many faces of Vasiliy Andreyevic Zhukovsky's poetry
Vol.12,No.2(2009)
Abstract
Keywords:
Russian poetry; V. А. Zhukovsky; ancient tradition; folklore; the formation of language, syntax and imagery of Russian poetry
Pages:
83–91
The author of the present article deals with the different strata of the poetry of the significant Russian poet Vasily Zhukovsky (1783-1852) accentuating his link to Russian folklore and to ancient Greek and mainly Roman Latin poetry. The poet applied mythology as well as historical classical subjects in his longer poems Happiness (1809), Kassandra (1809), To Deliya (1812), The Cranes of Ibykos (1813), Achilles (1813), Teon and Eshin (1814), The Revelation of Gods (1816) and others. He became the founder of real Russian poetic language, its syntax and imagery, later exploited by his successors (Pushkin, poets of "pure poetry" and Russian modernists).
Russian poetry; V. А. Zhukovsky; ancient tradition; folklore; the formation of language, syntax and imagery of Russian poetry
83–91
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