New Peasant Poets
New Peasant Poets (
are traditionally referred to as "new peasant" poets. The beginning of their creative path was in the 1900s-1910s.These poets did not call themselves "New peasant" and did not form a literary union or direction with a uniform theoretical platform. However, all "new peasant" poets in one way or another were featured by appeals to the theme of rural Russia contrary to
Russian folklore. At the same time, the stylistic aspirations of "Russian modernism
" were also intelligible to them.
The term "new peasant poets" appeared in Russian
Alexey Koltsov, Ivan Nikitin, Surikov
poets).
Sources
- RONALD VROON THE GARDEN IN RUSSIAN MODERNISM: Notes on the problem of mentalité in the New Peasant poetry // Revue des études slaves. Vol. 69, No. 1/2, VIEUX-CROYANTS ET SECTES RUSSES du XVIIe siècle à nos jours (1997), pp. 135–150
- Michael Makin Nikolai Klyuev: Time and Text, Place and Poet Northwestern University Press, 2010