ONCE AGAIN ON SENTIMENTAL AND CLASSICAL IN POETRY OF KARAMZIN

Abstract

In lyrical poetry, N. Karamzin developed two seemingly opposite sense line. The first one is set by the poetic treaty «Giving» (1796) and removes traditional for sentimentalism opposition of the Nature and civilization, that do not deny but presuppose each other on the basis of «feelings» («sensitivity»). At the same time in the program epistles to I. Dmitriyev, A. Plescheyev (1794) and some other, the Karamzin’s lyrical hero not only flies from the civilization, but is consistently disappointed in all aims of his escape: Love, Friendship, Nature, Poetry and Afterlife. The comparison of these two lines shows that the voice of the recluse doesn’t belong to the poet, but is pictured by Karamzin as the result of the collapse of the “Nature - civilization” harmony.