P.B. SHELLEY'S POEM «OZYMANDIAS» IN RUSSIAN TRANSLATIONS IN THE END OF THE 19TH - BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURIES

Abstract

The article presents a comparative analysis
of the five Russian translations of P.B. Shelleys
poem «Ozymandias» (1817), created by Ch.Vetrinskiy
, A. Barykova, K. Balmont, N. Minskiy
, V. Bryusov in 1890-1916, which fully reflected
peculiarities of the social and political, cultural
and literary life in Russia in the end of the 19th-beginning
of the 20th centuries, in particular, weakening of
the political system position, growing of interest to the
culture of Ancient Egypt, strengthening of Romanticism
tendencies in the Russian poetry, that is Neoromanticism,
which appeared in contrast to Naturalism
in literature. While analyzing the authors considered
peculiarities of literary and critical understanding of
P.B.Shelleys works and their translations in Russia in
the end of the 19th-beginning of the 20th centuries,
gave information about interrelation of V. Bryusovs
translation and his own creative work, found the reminiscence
from «Ozymandias» in the original poem of
N. Minskiy «Human deeds and thoughts will pass like
dream...».