Ivinskiy Dmitriy Pavlovich – DSc in Philology, Professor, Lomonosov Moscow State Univercity, Moscow, Russia
The author of the article proceeds from the idea that in the seemingly unified vast space of “common places”, “topoi”, “clichés” there is a hierarchy, that takes shape at least within the framework of the perceiving individual consciousness: “topoi” remain common property, but each poet makes his own selection and combines them in his own way. The verse “Tyrants of the world, tremble”, discussed in the article, is associated not so much with Rouget de Lisle’s Marseillaise, as is usually done, as with French tragedy of the pre-revolutionary period, primarily with Voltaire’s The Death of Caesar and Corneille’s The Death of Pompey.
Corneille; Voltaire; Pushkin; ode; tyrans du monde