Vers libre (free verse) in Balmont’s translations
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2025-11-83-98
Abstract
The article considers the development of free verse in the translation work of K.D. Balmont, starting with the first attempts to make renditions for the poems of W. Blake and W. Whitman and ending with the translations of Czech poets completed in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The 1909 book “Calls of Antiquity” is considered a particularly important phenomenon in that series; the second enlarged edition of which was published in Berlin in 1923. A typology of transitional forms of free verse implemented by Balmont in his arrangements is outlined; the path from transitional experiments to the pure form of Russian free verse is shown.
Supporting agencies: The study was supported by the grant No. 25-18-00764 of the Russian Science Foundation, https://rscf.ru/project/25-18-00764/; the Russian Christian Humanitarian Academy named after F.M. Dostoevsky.
About the Author
Yu. B. Orlitskii
Russian State University for the Humanities; F.M. Dostoevsky Russian Christian Humanitarian Academy
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Yurii B. Orlitskii, Dr. of Sci. (Philology)
6-6, Miusskaya Sq., Moscow, 125047
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Orlitskii Yu.B. Vers libre (free verse) in Balmont’s translations. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2025;(11(1)):83-98. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2025-11-83-98
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