E. A. Gorbatova

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 This article explores the specifi c poetic cycle “In Spring” (“Vesnoyu”) by K. Fofanov in contrast to the lyric cycles by A. Apukhtin and K. Balmont, the authors who tend to gravitate towards two different types of poetics (“traditional” and ” modernistic”). It examines the principles of poems’ grouping, the characteriscs of constructing a lyric subject. The relationship of the character of the lyric hero and nature and signifi cance of such interrelationship to the cycle is also reviewed. As a result of the analysis, the author concludes that the cycle is a shining example of the “transitional” period of the Russian literature. In the fi nal analysis, K. Fofanov stands as both a successor of the literary tradition of the 19th century and an antecedent of modernistic poetry.