title: Boileau — Voltaire — Pushkin: About the poem “French rhymers’ strict judge…”
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metadata.value: Dmitrieva, Nina L.
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metadata.value: 2024-09-16T21:19:46Z
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metadata.value: Dmitrieva N. L. Boileau — Voltaire — Pushkin: About the poem “French rhymers’ strict judge…”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2024, 21 (2): 344–350. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2024.205 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2024.205
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metadata.value: Pushkin’s unfinished poem “French rhymers’ strict judge…” (1833) is an epistle addressed to
  Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, the famous theorist of French classicism. In 1820s–1830s, when
  the Russian literary milieu was fascinated by romanticism, the significance of Boileau’s works
  was being reassessed and his name began to be perceived as a symbol of the false idea of art.
  Pushkin, on the contrary, calls him to be his “guide”. The poem is intentionally written in
  classic Alexandrine verse, in the form of a classicist appeal to a grand master. At the same
  time, the poet calls for support on another great classic, Voltaire, imitating his satirical “Épître
  à Boileau”. Like Voltaire, Pushkin praises the addressee and like Voltaire, he does it with
  irony. Pushkin chooses a typical classical genre, satirical epistle. Voltaire, the brightest figure
  of the Enlightenment, worshiped the culture of the 17th century. Pushkin, although his works
  contain many motifs of romanticism, cannot be viewed as an adherent of this movement, as
  he did not consider it possible to sacrifice logical precision or the sense of proportion for the
  sake of greater expressiveness. Interestingly, criticism of romanticism, the “new school”, is
  complemented in the poem by condemnation of “commercial literature”, which was gaining
  strength in the 1830s. The poet points out at condemnation of consumer attitudes by Voltaire
  and Boileau. Pushkin’s epistle is a clear expression of his attitude towards the two main literary
  movements of the 1830s. Referring to two great classics, Boileau and Voltaire, he gives his
  preference to classicism.
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metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 21; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Pushkin
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metadata.value: Boileau
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metadata.value: Voltaire
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metadata.value: satire
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metadata.value: classicism
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metadata.value: satirical epistle
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metadata.value: Boileau — Voltaire — Pushkin: About the poem “French rhymers’ strict judge…”
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