title: V. K. Trediakovskii and A. P. Sumarokov in Polemics about the Sapphic Stanza
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metadata.value: Lappo-Danilevskii, Konstantin Yu.
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metadata.value: 2023-02-21T20:33:47Z
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metadata.value: 2023-02-21T20:33:47Z
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metadata.value: 2022-12
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metadata.value: Lappo-Danilevskii K. Yu. V. K. Trediakovskii and A. P. Sumarokov in Polemics about the Sapphic Stanza. Philologia Classica 2022, 17 (2), 300–320. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2022.210 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2022.210
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/39158
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metadata.value: The transition from syllabic to syllabo-tonic verse in Russian poetry in the 1730s — early
  1740s years is connected to the activity of three outstanding writers: Vasilii Trediakovskii
  (1703–1769), Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765) and Aleksandr Sumarokov (1717–1777). This
  reform concerned first of foremost binary and ternary meters and paved the way for creation
  of more complicated meters, among them syllabo-tonic equivalents of ancient Aeolic verse.
  The Sapphic hendecasyllable was the most known and widespread of them. The sapphic stanza
  was likewise very popular in European literatures; it consists of three sapphic hendecasyllabic
  lines and an adonean fourth line. Russian syllabic poets eagerly created rhymed sapphic
  stanzas with a caesura after the fifth syllable in the hendecasyllables, with the stresses in all
  four lines unregulated. Trediakovskii composed such sapphic stanzas for his translation of
  Paul Tallemant’s gallant novel “Le voyage de l’isle d’amour, à Licidas” (Paris, 1663), printed
  1730 in Saint Petersburg. In 1735, Trediakovskii published “A New and Brief Method of Composing
  Russian Verse”, which is considered the beginning of the reform of Russian versification.
  In this treatise, Trediakovskii proposed a more regulated sapphic stanza. The sapphic
  hendecasyllables were to consist of six trochees; the third of them, before a regular caesura,
  was catalectic. All lines concluded with feminine rhymes. In the second edition of this work
  (1752) Trediakovskii revisited his conception. At this point he understood the sapphic hendecasyllable
  as a combination of four trochees with one dactyl in the middle of them. Under
  the influence of Lomonosov’s “Letter on the Rules of the Russian Poetry” (1739) Trediakovskii
  became convinced of the necessity of alternating rhymes and for this reason decided that the
  first two lines in the sapphic stanza should have masculine rhymes. As a result he truncated
  these lines so that they contained only ten syllables. In his lost “Letter about Sapphic and
  Horatian Stanzas” (1755) Aleksandr Sumarokov expressed strong disagreement with Trediakovskii’s
  revised conception. He found decasyllables in sapphic stanzas unacceptable; he also
  came out against regular caesurae. However, Sumarokov treated the metrical structure of the
  sapphic hendecasyllable the same way as Trediakovskii had. In 1755 and 1758, Sumarokov
  published three poems in sapphic syllabo-tonic stanzas, rhymed and unrhymed, but always
  without a regular caesurae. In 1762, Trediakovskii translated two stanzas from Horace’s Carmen
  saeculare. Their form allows one to conclude that he took Sumarokov’s criticism into
  account: he rejected decasyllables in these stanzas. Only in the question of caesura did he
  remain unyielding.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 17; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Vasilii K. Trediakovskii and Aleksandr P. Sumarokov as literary theorists
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the sapphic stanza in eighteenth-century Russian poetry
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: reception of Sappho and Horace in Russia
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metadata.value: V. K. Trediakovskii and A. P. Sumarokov in Polemics about the Sapphic Stanza
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