The first study of the Russian reception of English literature from Romanticism to aestheticism.
List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsNotes on the textIntroduction11Museum people9Pt. IThe Barbaric Renaissance352Rites of spring373Balmont's Shelley and the sacred books of the East694Edgar Allan Poe and the magic of words97Pt. IIThe Aesthetic Renaissance1155The renaissance of the renaissance1176English Aestheticism and Blok's apocalypse1407How important it is to be serious: Oscar Wilde's popularity1528Kuzmin's English style170Afterword188Notes192Bibliography226Index241