RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism (Dec 2016)
FORMATION OF THE BOOK OF POEMS PHENOMENON IN RUSSIAN POETRY OF THE ХVII-ХІХ-TH CENTURIES
Abstract
The article discusses the origin, formation and development of a book of poems as a special over- text, metagenre form resting on a unifying principle. Changing of these principles is the story of the book of poems formation. In the Baroque ages, Simeon Polotsky composed «Orchard Color» in accordance with the concepts of the world order. In the poetry of the Classicism period the principle of genre compositions was dominated, later it replaced by chronological principle. The titles of poetry books of XVIII - early XIXth centuries reflected the growth of the individual, private in the poetry, that giving more freedom to the authors, including the structuring their books. In the XIXth century, different principles of poems association freely combined within the same book and not strictly observed. The first proper book of poems in Russian poetry is «Twilight» by E.A. Baratynsky (1842). In the second half of the XIXth century cyclization became widespread, and to the turn of the centuries book of poems is a leader in the genre system of Russian poetry.
