Thomas Moore’s po ems and his book about J.g. Byron in the creative perception of M.Yu. Lermontov

Dmitry N. Zhatkin; Tatiana A. Yashina

Dmitry N. Zhatkin Department of Translation and Methods of Translation, Penza State Technological University, Penza, Russian Federation
Tatiana A. Yashina Department of Translation and Methods of Translation, Penza State Technological University, Penza, Russian Federation

Keywords: Russian-English literary and historical and cultural ties, poetry, romanticism, tradition, reception, allusion, comparative science, artistic translation, intercultural communication.

Abstract

The article is devoted to the traditions’ revealing and comprehending of Thomas Moore’s works in the poetry of M.Yu.Lermontov, evidence’s establishing of the systematic interest of the Russian poet to the motifs and symbolic images of the poems of the Irish author; we also analyzed individual artistic details in the poems of M.Yu. Lermontov, confirming the facts of M.Yu.Lermontov’s close study of Byron’s biography, published by Thomas Moore. In the methodological aspect, the article is based on the foundations of historical poetics science, set forth in the fundamental works of Alexander N. Veselovsky, V. M. Zhirmunsky, and also on the writings of English literature researchers such as P.S. Kogan, A.E. Elistratova, A.P. Sarukhanyan, works on translation theory and intercultural communication written by L.S. Barkhudarov, V.N. Komissarov, Y.L. Obolenskaya. In the process of analysis, sociocultural, comparative-historical, cultural-historical and comparative-typological methods of research are used. Using the example of appealing to specific artistic texts, a certain similarity of the motifs of Lermontov's novel «Vadim» and the third part of Thomas Moore's poem «Lalla Rookh» «Fire-Worshippers» was revealed, examples of repeated appeals to the image of Peri in Lermontov's oriental story «Ismail Bay», poems «Demon» and «Mtsyri». There are some details in the autobiographical notes of the Russian poet and his poems from the «Sushkov’s» poetical cycle, that approve the close study of Byron's biography by Lermontov. Biographical information about the Irish poet, derived from Thomas Moore's book «Letters and Journals of Lord Byron with Notices of His Life» largely influenced on the M.Yu. Lermontov’s creation of certain poetic cycles and enriched his works with vivid images and ideas.

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Dmitry N. Zhatkin, Department of Translation and Methods of Translation, Penza State Technological University, Penza, Russian Federation

Department of Translation and Methods of Translation, Penza State Technological University, Penza, Russian Federation

Tatiana A. Yashina, Department of Translation and Methods of Translation, Penza State Technological University, Penza, Russian Federation

Department of Translation and Methods of Translation, Penza State Technological University, Penza, Russian Federation

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