Poetry of W. Whitman in the literary-critical interpretation of K.I. Chukovsky.

Abstract

The article considers K.I.Chukovsky’s specific literary criticism of poetry by W.Whitman. In the process of analysis, we use historical-literary, socio-cultural, historical-cultural, comparative-typological, historical-genetic and biographical methods of investigation. K.I.Chukovsky was one of the first domestic critics to respond to the work of W.Whitman – first with the articles in «The Odessa News» (1904), in the newspaper «Freedom and Life» (1905), in the literary and journalistic collection «Mayak» («Lighthouse») (1906), and then with a review of Russian translations, published in «Libra» (1906) under the title «Russian Whitmaniana».