The Soviet Lyric Long Poem of The 1920s (The Question of Genre)

The lyric clearly dominates poetry in the twentieth century. The changes that have occurred in poetic genres, particularly in the long poem [poema], are directly related to it. By tradition, this genre is defined as lyric-epic. However, at the turn of the century in Russian poetry there appears (and gains ever greater use) a long poem of a new type — the lyrical. (1)