“I love the wind blowing novelty...” (Yuri Linnik's philosophical lyric poetry of the 1960s)

The paper analyses the philosophical lyric poetry of Yuri Linnik using two collections of his poems: The Prelude (1966) and The Harmony (1969). it is about the poet's search for inner harmony, uniting the past and the present, and eventually finding this harmony, in his own words, “in the North, taken as one of the most complex categories of Russian history, Russian language and Russian nature”.