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Pushkin's Lyric Intelligence (Paperback)
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Pushkin's Lyric Intelligence (Paperback)
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Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is Russia's greatest poet, a
'founding father' of modern Russian literature, and a major figure
in world literature. His poetry and prose changed the course of
Russian culture, and his works inspired operas by Musorgsky and
Tchaikovsky (as well as Peter Shaffer's Amadeus). Ceaselessly
experimental, he is the author of the greatest body of lyric poetry
in the language; a remarkable novelist in verse, and a pioneer of
Russian prose fiction; an innovator in psychological and historical
drama; and an amateur historian of serious purpose. Like Byron,
whose writing and personality were an inspiration to him, Pushkin
had a sensational life, the stuff of Romantic legend. His writing
treats all the most important themes that great literature can
addresss-the nature of identity, love and betrayal, independence
and creativity, nature, the meaning of life, death and the
afterlife-in an elegant style and highly personal voice. Lyric
intelligence refers to Pushkin's capacity to transform
philosophical and aesthetic ideas into poetry. Arguing that
Pushkin's poetry has often been misunderstood as transparently
simple, this first major study of this substantial body of work
traces the interrelation between his writing and the influences of
English and European literature and cultural movements on his
understanding of the creative process and the aims of art. Andrew
Kahn approaches Pushkin's poetic texts through the history of
ideas, and argues that in his poetry the clashes that matter are
not about stylistic innovation and genre, as has often been
suggested. Instead the poems are shown to articulate a range of
positions on key topics of the period, including the meaning of
originality, the imagination, the status of the poet, the role of
commercial success, the definition of genius, represenation of
nature, the definition of the hero, and the immortality of the
soul. Drawing on an extensive knowledge of Pushkin's library and
his intellectual context, Pushkin's Lyric Intelligence addresses
how theories of inspiration informed Pushkin's thinking about
classicism and Romanticism in the 1820s and 1830s. The story of the
unfolding of the imagination as a vital poetic power and concept
for Pushkin is a consistent theme of the entire book. It is this
movement towards a fuller apprehension and application of the
imagination as the key poetic power that guided Pushkin's
transitions through different phases of his creative development.
The book looks at the intersection of Pushkin's knowledge of
important ideas and artistic trends with poems about the creative
imagination, psychology, sex and the body, heroism and the ethical
life, and death.
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