Chavchanidze Julietta Leonovna – DSc in Philology, Professor of the Department of the history of foreign literature, Faculty of philology, Lomonosov Moscow State university
The influence of German philosophy, aesthetic theories of Schelling and Hegel on the critical views of V.G. Belinsky is considered. The comparison of Hoffmann and Gogol put forward by him is analyzed, as is the perception of the former by the latter, which largely contributed to romantic tendencies in Russian literature. The comparison of Jean-Paul and George Sand proposed by the Russian critic is singled out as a retreat of the romantic method before the realistic one, and Belinsky’s objection to the romantic cult of Shakespeare is noted.
V.G. Belinsky; romanticism; German philosophy; folk poetry