Keywords
literary travel
Italianism
Acmeism
Nikolai Gumilev
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Abstract
This article analyzes the Italian poems of Nikolai Gumilev, with particular regard to the use of ekphrasis and ekphrastic vision. The poetic cycle in question marks a pivotal stage in author’s artistic path, relating to the foundation of Acmeism – a short-lived, yet influential, phenomenon within Russian Modernism. The analysis shows how programmatic quest for spatial and visual poetry grounded in literary tradition relates to the phenomenon of Italian literary travel.
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