5 Jul 2008
Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (1803-1873)
Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (1803-1873) is one of the most memorized and quoted Russian poets. He wasn't well-known as a poet during his lifetime since he regarded his poems as bagatelles not worthy of being published. A collection of his poems was first published in 1854 without his help.
Half of Tyutchev's poetry is political: he was a fierce Slavophile and criticised the Western World, the Vatican, the Ottoman Empire and Poland. Many of his other poems were about nature or love and the language he used was very black or white. He often speaks of 'day' and 'night', 'dreams' and 'reality' and his works contain a modernist sense of anxiety where humans are portrayed as being tragically abandoned and lonely.
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