Quote "Echo" of J. Keats in the Late Lyrics of Anna Akhmatova

Abstract

The subject of the study is explicit and hidden references to the work of John Keats in the works of Anna Akhmatova "Poem without a hero" and the cycle of poems "From a burnt notebook". The object of the study is the principle of "mirror writing" implemented through references to Keats, which allows using embedded references to various works of world culture located one inside the other. The author examines in detail such aspects of the topic as the use of quotations in the text and in the frame of the text, the roll call of citations among themselves and with other works. Special attention is paid to the motive of meeting with a dead lover formed with the help of allusions, which is present both in Keats' poems and in the "Poem without a Hero", and due to the principle of "mirror writing" is formed in the implicature of the cycle "From a burnt notebook".   The main conclusions of the study are the detailed references to the form and content of John Keats' poems in the works of Anna Akhmatova. A special contribution of the author to the study of the topic is the connection established for the first time between the image of "embalming" mentioned in the Poem without a Hero and in Keats' poem "A Pot of Basil", the epigraph from which is used in the cycle "From a burnt notebook". The novelty of the research lies in clarifying the principle of "mirror writing", the quote "echo", implying the reflection of one quote in another and building a kind of chain of references in the work: Keats refers to Boccaccio, Boccaccio to Virgil, etc.