One more time about the perspectives of the study of historical poetics

The article explains the phenomenon of historical poetics in Russia. At the end of the 19th century it was discovered and substantiated by A. N. Veselovsky. He formulated the idea, proposed the original concept of poetics, and introduced new categories of analysis which were the words “sujet”, “motif”, “genre” borrowed from the French language, and which changed their meaning in the Russian language. Their "reverse translation" is almost impossible. The fact that they have become key categories largely determines the originality of historical poetics in Russian literary studies. In the 1940s-1980s the study of the history of literature in terms of poetics captivated such outstanding scholars as V. M. Zhirmunsky, V. Ya. Propp, E. M. Meletinsky, M. M. Bakhtin, D. S. Likhachev, S. S. Averintsev, A. V. Mikhaylov. Their example was followed by many others. In the political conditions of the 1950s-1980s, historical poetics allowed avoiding the dogmatism of party criticism, gave an opportunity to study literature and art beyond the politics and restrictions of Soviet ideology. Today, the study of historical poetics is mainly determined by the inertia of the initial acceleration. New ideas, concepts, original researches are in demand.