Poems and Epics

Dmitry Shchedrovitsky – a widely known biblical scholar, author of the multi-volume "Introduction to the Old Testament", works on the history and philosophy of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – is also an amazing poet of the neoclassical direction. His creativity is characterized by "condensed" metaphors that convey features of an original mystical-philosophical worldview and a richness of cultural-historical associations. His poetry has repeatedly received high praise from critics, included in collections of the best works of domestic poetry, and some of it has been set to music. He has translated English (J.Donne, Shakespeare, etc.), German (Heine, Rilke, etc.), Lithuanian poetry, hymns of Qumran, Arabic and ancient Hebrew poets, Persian Sufis (the book of proverbs by Rumi). Love and history, nature and mythology, ecstasy and reflection, clothed in poetic word, appear in the poems of D. Shchedrovitsky in their primal, inseparable unity.