Russian Poetry of the 19th Century
1 hr. 21 min.
Language
Russian
Authors
Ivan Turgenev, Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Fyodor Tyutchev, Afanasy Fet, Koltsov Alexey, Polonsky Yakov, Surikov Ivan Z., Fyodor Glinka
Author
Ivan Turgenev
Author
Fyodor Tyutchev
Author
Afanasy Fet
Author
Koltsov Alexey
Author
Polonsky Yakov
Author
Surikov Ivan Z.
Author
Fyodor Glinka
Narrator
Roman Pokryshkin
Narrator
Roman Pokryshkin
Description
After the death of Pushkin and Lermontov, readers’ tastes shifted noticeably toward prose: lyric poetry appeared less and less often in the pages of magazines, and new poetry collections were hardly ever an event.
And yet Fet, Tyutchev, and the poets of their circle managed to achieve the main thing—their verses began to sound like music. As early as the 1860s, romances to Fet’s words were being sung by almost all of Russia.
An entire generation of major 19th-century poets—F.I. Tyutchev, A.A. Fet, N.A. Nekrasov, A.K. Tolstoy, A.N. Maykov—entered literature in the late 1830s and early 1840s, when poetry had it especially hard. After the departure of A.S. Pushkin and M.Yu. Lermontov, as V.G. Belinsky put it, “it is difficult to be not only remarkable, but also any kind of poet.”
The situation was made worse by the fact that the era gave prose precedence: editors were more willing to publish stories and novels, leaving poetry with the bare minimum of space. And although the poets of the second half of the century were not able to fully restore the former anticipation and stir (which accompanied the new books by Turgenev, Goncharov, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy), they found another way to reach readers—through song.
Their remarkable musicality attracted the greatest composers—P.I. Tchaikovsky, N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov, M.P. Mussorgsky, S.I. Taneyev, S.V. Rachmaninoff. Thus were created vocal works that became true masterpieces and genuinely close to the Russian listener.
And yet Fet, Tyutchev, and the poets of their circle managed to achieve the main thing—their verses began to sound like music. As early as the 1860s, romances to Fet’s words were being sung by almost all of Russia.
An entire generation of major 19th-century poets—F.I. Tyutchev, A.A. Fet, N.A. Nekrasov, A.K. Tolstoy, A.N. Maykov—entered literature in the late 1830s and early 1840s, when poetry had it especially hard. After the departure of A.S. Pushkin and M.Yu. Lermontov, as V.G. Belinsky put it, “it is difficult to be not only remarkable, but also any kind of poet.”
The situation was made worse by the fact that the era gave prose precedence: editors were more willing to publish stories and novels, leaving poetry with the bare minimum of space. And although the poets of the second half of the century were not able to fully restore the former anticipation and stir (which accompanied the new books by Turgenev, Goncharov, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy), they found another way to reach readers—through song.
Their remarkable musicality attracted the greatest composers—P.I. Tchaikovsky, N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov, M.P. Mussorgsky, S.I. Taneyev, S.V. Rachmaninoff. Thus were created vocal works that became true masterpieces and genuinely close to the Russian listener.
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