Abstract
Taking as a starting point Vyacheslav Ivanov’s poem Eden – the epilogue
of the 5th book of “metaphysical lyric poetry” Rosarium as well as his critical and philosophical
works – the article proposes a culturological interpretation of the key topoi of the
poet’s artistic thought: his poetic anthropology. The principal point in these considerations
is conceptualisation of the category of paradise/Eden in Ivanov’s writings and the notion
of happiness as “metaphysical and religious feeling” connected with a person’s spiritual
life in its vertical dimension (relation man – three-personed God). Moreover, the article
presents intertextual relationships between Ivanov’s poetry and cultural texts (St Augustine,
Petrarch, and others) being the source of European understanding of the concepts: soul,
memory, oblivion, paradise.
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