POETRY OF THE MIDDLE VOLGA: DEVELOPMENT TRENDS FROM THE BEGINNINGOF THE XIX TO THE BEGINNING OF THE XXI CENTURY
The purpose of this article was to study the development trends of Middle Volga poetry (Samara / Kuybyshev / Samara; Simbirsk / Ulyanovsk; Stavropol on the Volga / Tolyatti) for two centuries: from the beginning of the XIX to the beginning of the XXI centuries on the example of leading poets of the region. During the study, the prevalence of fables at the beginning of the XIX century was established (I. Dmitriev, A. Mazdorf), revolutionary (G. Krzhizhanovsky, M. Gerasimov, V. Bagrov) and song poetry (A. Shiryaevets, V. Alferov), poetry of emigration (I. Knorring) in the first half of the twentieth century, landscape poetry (N. Zhogolev), philosophical (P. Gridnev, E. Sidorov, M. Anischenko), folklore (E. Chepurnykh) and neo-avant-garde (M. Lezin) poetry in the late XX - early XXI centuries.