I. Kozlov's poetic epistle to members of the Royal Family: A tribute to the traditions of classicism and romantic poetics

Abstract

The article considers the artistic originality of Ivan Kozlov's (1779-1840) verse epistles, which addressed to members of the Imperial House. The study revealed the connection of the works to the genre of odes, which was almost leveled in the era of Romanticism, replaced by the Epistles-glorification. In his letters you can see the characteristic features for odes: praise to the recipient, elements of high and singing style, full of metaphors, high frequency of gradations. And tribute to Romanticism is associated with freedom of poetic forms of expression, deep lyricism, special vocabulary, semantics transmission of human feelings. The poet fills letters to officials with poetic experience of joy and a heart of delight, leaving behind the pathetic nature of such communications.