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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]

The article explores the engagement of Australian poet A. D. Hope with Russian literature and argues for its centrality in Hope's thinking in the last three decades of his poetry. The author discusses Hope's essays, epistolary correspondences, and the notebooks archived at the National Library of Australia to trace Hope's familiarity with the Russian language, his translation projects, and the Russian essays Hope includes in his book "The New Cratylus: Notes on the Craft of Poetry."

The article discusses the development of Russian symbolism in literature with a focus on the influence of poet Dmitrii Merezhkovsky. The poet's book of verse "Simvoly" or "Symbols" which was published in 1892 is discussed. Topics include a mystical or religious slant on idealism in literary symbols and the continuity of thematic motifs in translations. Merezhkovsky's poetic technique in three collections of verse, "Simvoly," Stikhotvoreniia," and "Novye Stikhotvoreniia," is compared. His lectures "O prichinakh upadka i o novykh techeniiakh v sovremennoi russkoi literature" or "The Reasons for the Decline and the New Currents in Contemporary Russian Literature" are mentioned.