Information about the author:
Yuri B. Orlitsky
Yuri B. Orlitsky, DSc in Philology, Leading Research Fellow, Russian State University for the Humanities, Miusskaya Square, 6, 125993, GSP-3, Moscow, Russia.
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ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4868-8882
Abstract:
The article considers the main features of the verse poetics of the so-called New Peasant poets on the material of the poetic works of P. Oreshin, V. Nasedkin, I. Eroshin and R. Akulshin (Berezov). The author analyzes the general features of this poetics, which allow us to speak of its independence against the background of the prevailing in 1910–1930s Symbolist, Acmeist and Futurist poetics; the general direction of the evolution of the New Peasant metrics is outlined: from the “song” chorus through the fascination with various forms of tonic and free verse to the “book”, classical iambic. Observations show that this trajectory, despite individual variations, turns out to be generally characteristic of both the first row of New Peasants: N. Klyuev, S. Esenin, S. Klychkov, A. Shiryaevets — the authors considered in the 1997 article — and the four poets, whose work is analyzed below.
