D. V. VENEVITINOV’S SONNET «TO THEE, OH PURE SPIRIT, THE SOURCE OF INSPIRATION…»: DATING, POETICS, SCHELLINGIAN PLOT

Abstract

The context of D. V. Venevitinov’s philosophical writings reveals an underlying Schellingian content within the sonnet «To Thee, Oh Pure Spirit, the Source of Inspiration…». The particularities of the text’s poetics testify to the role it plays in the emergence of Venevitinov’s lyrical persona. The study of ideological genesis and artistic structure of the poem allows to date it more precisely.