Three metaphors for life : Derzhavin's late poetry / Tatiana Smoliarova ; translated and edited Nancy Workman.

Extensive revision of the "Zrimai︠a︡ lirika."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In search of a metaphor: in place of an introduction -- Magic lantern (projection). A text in performance ; Shadows only ; Pregnant moments ; An attempt in the dramatic field -- Lanterns and lanternists. Laterna magica ; Citizen Robertson ; The fantasmagoria ; Rainbow (refraction). Unweaving the rainbow ; The meteorological cycle ; From allegory to ... allegory ; Magic made simple, or do-it-yourself ; Addison and his pleasures -- The limits of imitation. Apelles and his lines ; Camera obscura ; The child of Thaumas -- Garden of memory (reflection). The keys to Zvanka ; Beatus, my brother ; Essay on man ; The art of memory ; A peculiar vision: approaches to the text -- Nine views. Pleasures of imagination ; Choral vision ; Stanzas of solitude -- The poet's house. The bard lived there ; Zvanka's echo ; Pindar, Derzhavin, and the 1920s: in place of a conclusion.

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This monograph explores this coexistence of ""archaist and innovator"" in the figure of late Derzhavin, Russian patriot and profoundly European artist.

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