Belous A. D.S. Merezhkovskiy's "Poems (1883 - 1887)" in the context of the Russian poetry of the 1880 s.

Object - a poetry book by D. Merezhkovsky "Poems" (1883 - 1887); goal - to comprehend first poetry book by D. Merezhkovsky "Poems" (1883-1887) in the context of Russian poetry of the 1880 s; methods - holistic, comparative-typological analysis; newness - for the first time collection of D. Merezhkovsky "Poems" (1883-1887) was analyzed in the context of Russian poetry of the 1880 s; was made an attempt to confirm and expand the thesis that the nature of assimilation pre-symbolic poetry revision predecessors was a polemic - by way of succession and by separating from it or the creation of false genealogies; Was identified key poetic images and topics, characterized by their artistic originality, first considered the image of the lyrical hero, forms of intertextuality, genre variety of philosophical, civil and love lyrics, founded pretext literary and mythological works of the poet; the results can be used in the study of Russian poetry of the last third of the nineteenth century, in higher education, courses and seminars, in the preparation of course and diploma works, as well as in further studies of the writer; area - рhilology.