Traditions of Thomas Moore’s «Lalla Rookh» in V.A. Zhukovsky compositions
Abstract
The article deals with the traditions’s revealing and understanding of Thomas Moore’s eastern poem «Lalla Rookh» in the works of V.A. Zhukovsky. The analysis of the works of the Russian poet, which reflected the events of the Berlin theatrical festival in 1821 («Lalla Rook», «The phenomenon of poetry in the form of Lalla Rook») is done in this article. The facts and circumstances that helped Thomas Moore and V.A. Zhukovsky’s indirect acquaintance are distinguished. Theoretically, the article is based on a historical and literary approach to the subject of study, combined with a comparative historical and formal methods of analyzing literary works. In the field of methodology of historical and literary knowledge, the works of Alexander N. Veselovsky, Yu.N. Tynianov, B.V. Tomashevsky, V.E. Vatsuro have special significance for this study. The acquaintance of V.A. Zhukovsky with the poetical work of Thomas Moore was due to the «Arzamasets» and diplomat D.N. Bludov, who sent to the Russian poet several books of an English contemporary. Obviously, Thomas Moore first heard about the famous Russian poet-translator due to the response of J.G. Byron to his work after reading the «Russian anthology» of J. Bowring and the appearance of numerous positive responses to the translations of V.А. Zhukovsky from J.G. Byron. The poems «Lalla Rookh» and «Poetry Appearance in the Form of Lalla Rookh» dedicated to Grand Duchess Alexandra Feodorovna are among the significant texts that determined the key stages of Zhukovsky’s creative evolution and helped to the formation of the «pure beauty genius» in Russian poetry. Zhukovsky’s poems «The Dream», «Peri» and «Bedouin’s Song» dated by 1831 year, have a single original source - the album «Living pictures and pantomime scenes at the «Lalla Rookh» celebration» written by S.G. Shpiker and published in Berlin in 1823. These works, which are close interpretations of the texts of the German poet, characterized by a weakening of Oriental motifs, felt in the transformation of syntactic structures, the use of neutral lexemes instead of words with oriental coloring. Contemporaries highly appreciated Zhukovsky as a talented translator of foreign literature, including his interpretations from Thomas Moore’s poetry, drew parallels between Western European originals and their Russian interpretations; the creative closeness of Zhukovsky and Moore was also emphasized, which was felt both in the figurative system of poetical works, and in their stylistics and emotional tonality.
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