CHARLE OGOUSTINE DE SAINTE-BEUVE IS A FOUNDER OF BIOGRAPHICAL METHOD
This article analyses the formation, process of development and specific peculiarities of the biographical method in literary criticism. It describes both peculiar philosophic-psychological views of XIX century and political cultural historical scientific-literary circumscription. Morover the article reviews writers scientific-creative activity of that time and their literary aesthetic outlook.The article deals with the mastery of the use of biographic method in understanding the works Sainte-Beuve.