Reception of O.Beardsley in the poem "Invitation" by M.Kuzmin

The article suggests the comparative analysis of the poetics of the Russian poet, prose writer, critic and composer М.А.Kuzmin and the English graphic artist О.Beardsley, the Creator of the art Nouveau style. Creative similarities of the two authors are revealed on the basis of Kuzmin's poem «Invitation» where the name of Beardsley is mentioned, as well as on the basis of poems, prosaic and graphic works of the English author. We can see that the two authors are poetically and aesthetically close to each other investigating their interpretation of the motives of travelling and invitation, the motives of rose and pink, details of interior, reminiscences to the Middle Ages and Rococo, unity of verbal, musical and visual elements as in «synthetical» poetry.