Russian Infinitive Poetry of the 18th-20th centuries. Anthology

Infinitive poetry, by the definition of A.K. Zholkovsky, are poems written in an uncertain inclination (how to “sin shamelessly, unforgettable ... "A. A. Blok) and dedicated to a typical lyrical topic: reflections on virtual albeit. Before us is the first one of its kind anthology, which is close to such meetings as the "Russian Epigram", "Russian epitaph" or "Russian sonnet", but differs from them more formal - poetic -syntactic - the principle of selection.
Anthology included more than three hundred samples of infinitive poetry, from Trediakovsky to the classics of the last century, and in the comments to them are similar fragments from other works of the same authors, as well as foreign sources and parallels. To describe infinitive passages of different lengths and syntactic structure in the comments, a specially designed description system is used, emanating from the concepts of "poetry of grammar" R. Jacobson and "semantic halo" K. Taranovsky - M. Gasparov