PHILOSOPHICAL READING OF THE IRISH MELODIES BY THOMAS MOORE AND THE REMINISCENCE OF THE MOORE’S HERITAGE IN THE POETRY OF MIKHAIL LERMONTOV

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O.A. Egorova

Abstract

This article examines the reflection of the positive pleasure philosophy in the opuses of «Irish Melodies» by T. Moore and the poetic tonality preservation adequacy in the work’s translation into Russian, including reminiscences of Moore's poetic heritage in some poems by Mikhail Lermontov. Comparison of translations into Russian of some of Moore's melodies revealed that the translators used the method of semantic compensation to fill in the «gaps» that include elements of the Ireland’s mythological folklore.

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humanistic attack, romanticism, reminiscences, semantic compensation, cultural context, philosophical school.