Landscape poetry of Hermann Hesse
The article discusses the poetic heritage of Hermann Hesse, the classical poet of German literature of the twentieth century. His landscape poetry is practically unexplored in the domestic literary criticism. It is noted that throughout the life of Nobel laureate, after his first literary success - confessional novel "Peter Camenzind", where nature is glorified by poems in prose, his poetry and prose complement each other. The theme of nature, philosophical and sometimes mystical understanding of it - is one of the major themes in all the collections of Hesse's poetry - from the "Romantic Songs" (1898) to "Late Poems" (1963). The poet loves nature with passionate and reverent love of the artist, who with heart and soul plunges into landscapes, atmospheric phenomena and the seasons. Not only the fall and spring phenomena and landscapes are perfectly depicted in Hesse's writings, but all "fabrics" of landscape poetry of the poet, poem-paintings that convey moods, impressions, feelings and thoughts are really wonderful. It is emphasized that the poet skillfully uses in his verse such components of pictorial art as the plane and color, light and shadow. The author concludes that the landscape naturalistic poetry by Hesse has the greatest plasticity, language concentration and extreme clarity; that the poet's poems about the spontaneity and harmony of the nature, its infinity and cyclicity are read as part of a single poem, where the main character is a sensitive, contemplative Person, Poet and Artist.