Reinventing Romantic Poetry : Russian Women Poets of the Mid-nineteenth Century

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the Gothic tale. The result, however, is an awkward combination of sty- listic effects, plot, and characters seemingly from Push ...

takes place in the country, like the svetskaia povest’it depicts the world as hostile to true feelings, presents marriage as a c ...

ballads were being compared to the works of Homer as part of the on- going “Homeric question,” the debate over whether Homer was ...

woman (“Ballada, v kotoroi opisyvaetsia, kak odna starushka ekhala na chernom kone vdvoem, i kto sidel vperedi,” 1814 )—a transl ...

reflect the anger and powerlessness upper-class women felt in the face of such betrayals.^37 Five of the women poets we have bee ...

As with povesti v stikhakh,women poets used the ballad to tell very dif- ferent stories from men. The Elegy In Russia the elegy ...

Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” (“Sel’skoe kladbishche: Elegiia,” 1802 ). As with the poema,the implied gender no ...

ditionally mourn their induction into second-class citizenship, their loss of agency, freedom, and power in the world. For examp ...

men’s elegies—for example, of the ability to love, or of graphically de- scribed sexual pleasure—appear infrequently in the wome ...

painful moments, 1877 ), Zhadovskaia’s “Uvy i ia kak Prometei” (Alas, I, too, like Prometheus, 1858 ), Pavlova’s “Proshlo spolna ...

women poets projected their earthly longings onto the next life, as they saw little possibility for consolation in this one. Or ...

Peterburga v Moskvu (Journey from Saint Petersburg to Moscow, 1790 ) and in Pushkin’s Kapitanskaia dochka(The captain’s daughter ...

Iazykov’s “Elegiia” “Mechty liubvi—mechty pustye!” (Dreams of love are empty dreams, 1826 ). Such elegies, however, are far more ...

Poetics, 714 ). During the Romantic period the lyric was a central poetic genre; one scholar notes that the Romantics equated th ...

type of the poet, egoism, escapism), literary primitivism (bards, minstrels, ballads, and romances), and a return to nature—and, ...

sire in men’s lyrics. These women poets also wrote lyrics about “do- mestic affections” (that is, poems to mothers, sisters, bro ...

%u ë , &     h (As if everything for which we passionately ask Were in vain.) (“Duma,” 184 ...

Oxford Companion to English Literature, 842 ), championing “absolute creative freedom” (Preminger, Princeton Encyclopedia of Poe ...

isons might give us a more complete and three-dimensional view of Ro- manticism. These first chapters have analyzed the commonal ...