Approaches to verse theory in the works of Jaak Põldmäe

Abstract

It is hard to imagine more versatile a scholar of poetry than Jaak Põldmäe . In the course of his short life (particularly short for a humanist scholar) he made a significant contribution to the development of various areas of verse theory and the dissemination of knowledge of poetics. Põldmäe paid equal attention to both the development of verse theory (see his works on the typology of metrical systems, 1 the theory and the typology of vers libre, 2 methodological problems in the description of poetic rhythm, 3 rhyme and stanzaic structures 4 ) and the description of empirical material used in case studies such as his research on the metric repertoires of Jaan Kärner and Lydia Koidula,

Ain Kaalep (04.06.1926–09.06.2020)

“…Kaalep left a significant imprint on the research of Estonian verse. His studies were the most important contributions to the field of Estonian poetics before his disciple Jaak Põldmäe's (especially Põldmäe 1978; see also Gasparov, Lotman, Rudnev, Tarlinskaja 2017).…”