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This paper examines Prishvin’s creative reflection, captured in some of his lyrical miniatures. The writer’s insights have not lost their fundamental importance for the modern theory of literature, which became an independent scientific discipline in the 20^th century. During this formative period, it split into aesthetic and rhetorical branches. Prishvin thought about the art of speech in aesthetic terms and, in this respect, largely coincided with the “aesthetics of verbal art” of Mikhail Bakhtin, which opposed the rhetorical nature of literary criticism of the Russian “formal” school. Far from being scholarly, Prishvinʼs reflections were no less profound than Bakhtinʼs philosophical constructions, capturing the specificity of the creative integrity and completeness of literary works, the specificity of the creative act itself realized through “order in the soul,” and the specificity of the recipientʼs positioning by the artistic text.