Ivan Savvich Nikitin Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 11 pages of information about the life of Ivan Savvich Nikitin.

Ivan Savvich Nikitin Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 11 pages of information about the life of Ivan Savvich Nikitin.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography on Ivan Savvich Nikitin

Ivan Nikitin's early lyrics and, even more, his social origins, have led to comparisons with his predecessor, Aleksei Vasil'evich Kol'tsov, a master of the literary folk song. In addition, Nikitin's realistic poems depicting the lives of the poor--the works for which he is best remembered--are often mentioned in conjunction with the name of his famous contemporary, Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov. Nevertheless, Nikitin remains a figure who resists easy classification. His position as one of only a handful of poets who did not belong to the nobility attracted the attention of some of the more radical literary and social critics of his day--but such attention came with expectations about what a poet-meshchanin (poet-commoner) and a poet-obshchestvennik (civic poet) ought to contribute to a socially relevant literature and was often accompanied by harsh criticism of Nikitin's eclectic talent. At the same time, not merely an impassioned observer, Nikitin saw himself as...

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