Book of reflections. Second Book of Reflections: Innocent Annensky

The Innocent Annensky method, to which he resorted to the essays, included in the two “Books of Reflections” (1906, 1909), was called intuitive, the author was accused of pretentiousness, his tongue was declared “unnecessarily troubles”, the selection of those random. In the poet of the first row of the Silver Age, an outstanding expert on ancient and Western European poetry, they wanted – since he began to talk about Russian literature – to see criticism and judged him as criticism. And he called himself not a “critic”, but a “reader”, and his look at Gogol, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Chekhov, Balmont and other great eyes to the highest degree of subjective reader. For the poet -impressionist Annensky thought in his essays and associations, did not give estimates – but created an impression that in itself is more important than any assessment. Nikolai Gumilyov wrote about Innocent Annensky: “It is not a feeling that the thought gives rise to, as it happens in poets at all, and the thought itself is so strong that it becomes a feeling, even alive to pain.” To the essay from “Books …

Author
Annensky Innokenty Fedorovich
Artist
Chizhov I.
Publisher
Lomonosov, 2014
Series
Eternal satellites