Genesis and evolution of phenomenon of melancholy in the letter of V.A. Zhukovsky About melancholy in life and in poetry
There are investigated the ideas of V.A. Zhukovsky about the origin and the essence of the phenomenon of melancholy in the pre-Christian and Christian period; about the spiritual and aesthetic consequences of melancholy of human mind at different stages of mankind history, stated in the letter About melancholy in life and in poetry.