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- Title
Vladimir Nabokov and the Russian Hexameter: Classical Imitations in His Early Poetry.
- Authors
Karpukhin, Sergey
- Abstract
The article focuses on the poet Vladimir Nabokov's interest in the Russian dactylic hexameter and elegiac distich along with his classical imitations in Early Poetry. It mentions the thematic focus of the poem of the ekphrastic poems from the Greek Anthology that describe the statues of athletes; and also highlights the challenges to modernizing tendency in the poem along with the interest of Nabokov's towards anthological poetry and the hexameter.
- Subjects
NABOKOV, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977; HEXAMETER; POETRY (Literary form); GREEK Anthology (Book); 21ST century modern poetry
- Publication
International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 2020, Vol 27, Issue 1, p89
- ISSN
1073-0508
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12138-018-0457-y