METRIC IDIOLECT IN THE RUSSIAN POETRY OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Russian verse is regarded usually as a product of large evolutionary trends or tendencies tracing through the vast corpus including great number of poems of diff erent epochs. Owing to that, Russian method was going on well when the researcher was interested in the most popular forms of the verse although less frequent cases or defl ections in the main trend were almost always left aside. That method is relevant for the 19th-century’s verse but it reveals its ineffi ciency for that of the 20th century. In the fi rst decade of the century, a number of poets with unique metrical manners make their début: they invent specifi c meters and forms and employ them actively. In the post-WWII epoch, the situation becomes largely common for the underground poetry: its leading fi gures develop their unique and specifi c metrical manners which can be poorly accounted for through the prism of generalizing logic of Russian quantitative metrics.