Kolmekümnendate aastate luule kuuekümnendate aastate kriitikas ja kirjandusteaduses. Keele ja Kirjanduse ning Loomingu näide
Reflection of the Poetry of the 1930s in the Literary Theory and Criticism of the 1960s on the Example of Keel ja Kirjandus and Looming

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses how the Estonian poetry of the 1930s was discussed in the magazines Looming and Keel ja Kirjandus in the 1960s. Most of the material consists of anniversary articles, memoirs and critical reviews, of which the most productive authors were Karl Muru, Paul Rummo etc. The liberalization of the 1960s was used to arouse fresh interest in some long disfavoured authors (Henrik Visnapuu, Betti Alver, Heiti Talvik etc.). The political approach forced on the critics by precensorship is largely responsible for gainsay and keeping silent being used as favourite interpretational devices. Any points possibly differing from "good" poetry are gainsaid, while problematic ones are kept silent about. Abnegation of fascism is emphasized. Discussion is preferably confined to individual authors, not literary groupings or conceptions. The anthology "Arbujad", for example, containing poems by several young authors of the 1930s, is seldom mentioned. Now and then an author or critic of the 1930s is made a scapegoat in order to save the rest from being attacked. Most of the "scapegoats" were selected from exiles to the West, like e.g. Ants Oras, the compiler of the "Arbujad" anthology. Paradoxically, it can be argued that this way the poetic canon of the "magicians of the word" was upheld in the 1960s.

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