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One of the features of the early Russian Symbolist movement in the 189os is its appropriation of literary models previously championed by the civic tradition which preceded it, and to which it was both philosophically and aesthetically opposed. One example can be found in treatments of the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. This article compares civic and Symbolist translations of Shelley's sonnet 'Ozymandias', showing that the same material could be used to support radically different views, and that the literary world of the period was a particularly fluid space in which multiple overlapping trends competed for the attention of readers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Examines two particular elements that inform the symbolic structure of the poem 'Pervoe svidanie' and how they combine to further Andrei Belyi's thematic aims. Characteristics of the literary works of Belyi; Details of Belyi's first contact with theosophical literature; Discussion on the main symbolic outline of 'Pervoe svidanie.'

Discusses the influence of the early 19th-century poetic tradition and Alexander Pushkin on Anna Akhmatova, within the framework of the structural models that are presented by the generic categories of elegy and ballad. Semantic function of intertextuality within Akhmatova's poetic system; Pushkin as the center of network allusions; Ways in which Akhmatova responded to the literary tradition.