English literature and the Russian aesthetic renaissance
This1998 book is a study of the Russian reception of English literature from Romanticism to aestheticism focuses particularly on the reception by Russian poets of Shelley, Ruskin, Pater, Frazer and Wilde, which gave new impetus to the Russian imagination at the turn of the nineteenth-twentieth century.
Print Book, English, 1998
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1998
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780521621793, 0521621798
38113391
Preface
Introduction: museum people
Part I. The Barbaric Renaissance: Rites of spring
Balmont's Shelley and the sacred books of the east
Edgar Allan Poe and the magic of words
Part II. The Aesthetic Renaissance: The renaissance of the Renaissance
English Aestheticism and Blok's apocalypse
How important it is to be serious: Oscar Wilde's popularity
Kuzmin's English style
Afterword
Bibliography