| Titre | The legacy of difficulty in the Russian poetic tradition : Contemporary critical responses to Ivanov's Cor Ardens | |
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| Auteur | Pamela Davidson | |
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Revue | Cahiers du monde russe |
| Numéro | volume 35, no 1-2, janvier-juin 1994 Un maître de sagesse au XX e siècle Vjačeslav Ivanov et son temps | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Exégèses |
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| Page | 249-267 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Pamela DAVIDSON, The legacy of difficulty in the Russian poetic tradition : contemporary critical responses to Ivanov s Cor Ardens.
In reviewing the responses of Ivanov's fellow-poets to his collection of verse Cor Ardens (1911-1912), the paper focuses on one particular issue : the difficulty of Ivanov 's poetry and the legacy of this aspect of his poetics.
The paper falls into three parts. The first provides an introduction to the concept of difficulty in poetry, considered in relation to the development of the Russian poetic tradition and to Ivanov's place within this tradition. The central and most extensive part analyses the responses to the difficulty of Ivanov's poetry reflected in the reviews of Cor Ardens written by Valerii Briusov, Mikhail Kuzmin, Georgii Chulkov, and three younger poets of the next generation, Nikolai Gumilev, Sergei Gorodetskii and Vladislav Khodasevich. The final part considers Ivanov's innovatory role and legacy as a "difficult" poet, and concludes that it had a two-fold impact — both directly, on the level of fonnal difficulty, as Briusov and Kuzmin underline, but also indirectly, as a stimulus to reaction and self-definition, as is particularly clear from Gumilev 's response to Ivanov's ideological complexity. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_1252-6576_1994_num_35_1_2389 |
