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M.V. Lomonosov is an
outstanding poet, the founder of Russian literature.
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Lomonosov’s handwriting
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Lomonosov wrote the first
scientific grammar of Russian language
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He
wrote
many poems.
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In 1755, M.V. Lomonosov
reformed the Russian literary language by combining Old Church Slavonic with the vernacular.
He applied an idiosyncratic theory to his later poems – tender subjects needed words containing the front vowel sounds E, I, YU, whereas things that may cause fear (like “anger,” “envy,” “pain” and “sorrow”) needed words with back vowel sounds O, U, Y - an early version of what is now called sound symbolism.
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M.V. Lomonosov was the
author of poems, epistles, tragedies, satires, fundamental philological works and scientific grammar of Russian.
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M.V. Lomonosov was the
greatest Russian poet-enlightener of the 18th century, one of the founders of syllabic-tonic versification. Lomonosov was the founder of philosophical and Russian odes of high civil character.
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Abroad Lomonosov worked in
the field of Russian poetry and created the harmonious theory of the Russian syllabic-tonic verse, which was presented by him in “Letter on rules of Russian versification” and which is still in use today.
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He understood that there
wasn't a uniform Russian literary language or a uniform Russian culture. He decided to do everything possible to lay the foundations of new Russian culture, science, literature and literary language.
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His “Russian Grammar” which
defined features of Russian literary language, was the first real Russian grammar; “Eloquence compendium” is a course of general theory of literature. The treatise “About benefits of church books in Russian language” is the first experience in Russian stylistics.
Poetry occupied an important place in the life of Lomonosov: “Conversation with Anakreon” and “The Hymn to Beard.” He also wrote the plays “Tamira and Selim” and “Demofont” and numerous odes.
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Reacting to Trediakovsky's tract
of 1735, "The New and Brief Method for Writing Russian Verse," Lomonosov comes up with his own method and writes "A Letter on the Rules of Composing Russian Poetry." In developing Trediakovsky's basic idea (that Russian verse ought to be measured in feet rather than in syllables) into a more flexible system, Lomonosov establishes the syllabatonic mode that remains the most basic element of Russian verse composition.
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1742-1744
Intensive period of both
academic and poetic production. Works from this period include his most famous odes, "Morning Meditation on the Greatness of God" and Evening Meditation on the Greatness of God on the occasion of the Northern Lights" (see right), and the first edition of his "Short Guide to Rhetoric."
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1751
The Academy publishes the
first collection of Lomonosov's poetry.
1752
M.V. Lomonosov publishes the long poem "On the Utility of Glass" and writes the second play, Demofont, which is less successful than Tamira and Selim.
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1757
M.V. Lomonosov publishes "Russian
Grammar". For the Moscow University press, he begins work on the first volume of his collected works, for which he writes the "Foreword on the Utility of the Ecclesiastical Books in the Russian Language." In it he establishes the importance of the relationship between spoken Russian and Chruch Slavonic, arguing that, because of its connection to Ancient Greece via the Byzantines, the ecclesiastical language makes intellectual life accessible to the literate Russian.
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Spoken Russian and Church
Slavonic, Lomonosov argues can be combined in three styles, according to the loftiness of the writer's goals: the first, "high" style is used for tragedies, odes and elegies, should include more Slavonicsims; the second, "middle" style, consisting of an equal mix of Russian and Slavonic, should be used for drama, correspondence, and satire; and the third, "low" style includes mostly Russian words and exists for comedies, epigrams and everyday speech. This understanding of style proved extremely influential in the development of the poetic tradition in Russia.
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His literary works remain
one of the most significant
pages of Russian literature
in the 18 th century.
He wrote verses, odes and
poems.