GRAND HOPES OF THE RUSSIAN POETRY IN N. I. NOVIKOV’S HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF RUSSAIN WRITERS

Occupation: Head of the Department for the Studies of Russian Literature of the 18th Century
Affiliation: Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskij Dom), Russian Academy of Sciences
Address: Russian Federation,

Journal name

Russkaia literatura

Edition

Issue 2

Pages

35-39

Abstract

In his Essay on the Historical Dictionary of Russian Writers (1772), N. Novikov states that certain writers entertain or have entertained high hopes for the future of the Russian literature. And while as far as the playwrights (Ya. B. Knyazhnin and D. I. Fonvizin) were concerned, Novikov’s hopes came true, in the case of the poets they seemed to have fallen short: the poems either haven’t survived at all, or only a negligible number has reached us, or the extant poems haven’t lived up to the hopes. Novikov, however, was pursuing a different goal: in his opinion, Russian literature did not stand still, but remained in constant flow, and new authors who were about to appear were expected to make it glorious. Rather than address just the past and the present, Novikov’s Historical Dictionary was also an attempt to predict the future.

Keywords

reputation of a writer, biography of a writer, progress in literature, N. I. Novikov, Essay on the Historical Dictionary of Russian Writers.

Received

22.05.2020

Publication date

01.06.2020

Number of characters

14307

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GOST	Nikolaev S. «GRAND HOPES» OF THE RUSSIAN POETRY IN N. I. NOVIKOV’S HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF RUSSAIN WRITERS // Russkaia literatura – 2020. – Issue 2 C. 35-39 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/rusliter/s013160950009791-4-1-en (circulation date: 20.04.2024). DOI: 10.31860/0131-6095-2020-2-35-39
MLA	Nikolaev, Sergei "«GRAND HOPES» OF THE RUSSIAN POETRY IN N. I. NOVIKOV’S HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF RUSSAIN WRITERS." Russkaia literatura 2 (2020):35-39. DOI: 10.31860/0131-6095-2020-2-35-39
APA	Nikolaev S. (2020). «GRAND HOPES» OF THE RUSSIAN POETRY IN N. I. NOVIKOV’S HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF RUSSAIN WRITERS. Russkaia literatura (2), pp.35-39 DOI: 10.31860/0131-6095-2020-2-35-39

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