«Ода благодарности» А. П. Сумарокова: поэтическое новаторство в масонском тексте XVIII в.

Abstract

The present paper analyzes the poem Ode to Gratitude by the famous Russian 18th-century poet A. P. Sumarokov, not yet studied by literary scholars. The analysis shows that Sumarokov, as the founder of Russian classicism, mixed elements of various genres and specific to different literary traditions in some of his poems, thus he can be called a forerunner to 19th-century lyrics. Sumarokov’s stylistic innovations were facilitated by the necessity to encrypt Freemasonic ideas in a spiritual ode.