Russian Word-Play Poetry from Simeon Polotski to Derzhavin PDF
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RUSSIAN WORD-PLAY POETRY FROM SIMEON POLOTSKII TO DERZHAVIN C.L. DRAGE University of London Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) https://archive.org/details/SSEES0005 Russian Word-Play Poetry from Simeon Polotskii to Derzhavin RUSSIAN WORD-PLAY POETRY FROM SIMEON POLOTSKH TO DERZHAVIN ITS CLASSICAL AND BAROQUE CONTEXT C. L. DRAGE School of Slavonic and East European Studies London 1993 RUSSIAN WORD-PLAY POETRY FROM SIMEON POLOTSKII TO DERZHAVIN: ITS CLASSICAL AND BAROQUE CONTEXT C L. Drage Russian Word-Play Poetry from Simeon Polotskii to Derzhavin: Its Classical and Baroque Context © School of Slavonic and East European Studies 1993 ISBN: 0 903425 31 9 Printed in Great Britain by Henry Ling Limited The Dorset Press Dorchester DTI 1HD CONTENTS Acknowledgements vii Illustrations viii Preface ix Introduction 1 I. Picture Poems 2 II. Alphabetic Verses 13 III. Acrostics 15 IV. Echo Poems 25 V. Carmina Chronostica 32 VI. Carmina Cancrina 34 VII. Verses with Emphasized Words or Letters 41 VIII. Verses with Letters Replaced by their Church Slavonic Names 45 IX. Carmina Serpentina 47 X. Versus Concordantes 51 XI. Carmina Jocosa 56 XII. Macaronic Songs 60 XIII. Versus Protei 63 CONTENTS VI XIV. Carmina Climacterica 65 XV. Leonines 66 XVI. Logogriphi and Carmina Griphica 68 XVII. Versus Correlativi 73 XVIII. Poems with Continuous Rhyme which Reverse the Sequence of Rhyming Words Halfway 75 XIX. Sechstinnen 79 XX. Bouts-Rimes 80 XXI. Carmina Cabalistica 85 XXII. Carmina Arithmetica 85 XXIII. Carmina Quadrata 85 XXIV. Versus Omnivoci 86 XXV. Versus Rhopalici 86 XXVI. Versus Gigantei 87 XXVII. Centones 88 XXVIII. The Rebus 89 Conclusion 91 Notes 93 Indexes 106 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS It is a pleasure to express my gratitude to Dr J.L. Flood, Dr T. Henninger and Mr J. Leighton for their generous help with the German dimension of this book and to Mr B. Chatterley, Ms R. Miljevic and Ms S. Safraz for their expert preparation of its text for publication. ILLUSTRATIONS The following illustrations follow p.12 in the text: 1. Simeon Polotskii's 'Cross' 2. Simeon Polotskii's 'Star' 3. Simeon Polotskii’s 'Heart' 4. Ivan Velichkovskii's 'Cross’ 5. Aleksei Rzhevskii’s 'Rhombus’
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