Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1817-7115 (Print)
ISSN 2541-898X (Online)


В. Шершеневич

The «Right» and «Left» Imaginists: on a Literary Group Disintegration

The article presents a research of the literary and critical material of 1919–1927 related to the perception of the literary group «Imaginists». Critics of different aesthetic views did not believe in the sincerity and depth of the imagininst poets’ emotions. Contemporaries criticized the group members for epatage and experiments in poetry.