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Kantovskij Sbornik 2013
A. A. Fet and Kant’s stars-and-morals motif in Russian philosophical poetryKeywords: General History of Nature and Theory of the Heavens , Critique of Pure Reason , planet Neptune , gravitational collapse and imperishability of stars , moral reflection and cosmology , stars as hieroglyphs of dreams , poetry as a stairway to heaven Abstract: This article maintains that the founder of the “stars-and-morals” cycle in Russian philosophical poetry of the 1840s is A. A. Fet. From the poems “I stood a long time without moving” (1843) and “To Le Verrier's Neptune” (1846) to “To extinguished stars” (1890), i. e. over half a century, Fet created lyrical miniatures under the influence of Kant’s and Schopenhauer’s ideas.
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