Russian Word-Play Poetry from Simeon Polotski to Derzhavin

130 Pages·1993·6.5 MB·English

by  Charles I Drage

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’