SPECIFICS AND ROLE OF CHRONOTOPE IN EPISTOLARY HERITAGE OF ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETS

In this article the features of the spatial-temporal organization of epistolary heritage of English romantic poets are considered. These features were not considered in foreign and domestic literary criticism up to the present moment. The research of the author's literary letters confirms that the special spatial-temporal organization of life material is peculiar to it. Within such letter the coexistence of different types of time is reached: biographic, idyllic, natural. The space in which the movements of correspondence heroes are made is characterized by dynamism, diversity, stereoscopy and is an important part of model of the romantics' world. The stories' development in the letters is set in the linear sequence, therefore the genre building sign is the implementation of chronotopes of "external" and "internal" world in narration structure. The main chronotope in the author's literary letters is a chronotope of human nature which is a key to understanding spiritual evolution of the writer and his experiences in certain life moment