The Poetry of Blok (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Aleksandr Blok
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Literature, Revolutions, Poetry or poets, 1910’s, Symbolism, Russia or Russian people, Russian Revolution
Critical Evaluation:
From 1894 to 1910 Symbolism was the leading movement of Russian poetry. It began as an avant-garde movement expressing an estheticist conception of art for art’s sake and interest in the exotic and strange. The technique of Symbolism was impressionistic, and its poetic products were compared to music. Russian Symbolism gained much from French models and from the Russian philosopher-poet Vladimir Solovyov. The movement also embodied a certain bohemianism and an escape into personal fantasy and mysticism. Although the term Symbolism has been applied to a...
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