Tradition and reality in John Fowles’s poetry

The paper focuses on reception in John Fowles's poetry of the 1950s and 60s. The paper deals with the form and stylistics of the poems and their intertextuality, i.e. allusions and reminiscences to his predecessors' works. The basic methods are those of reception-aesthetics and literary hermeneutics. The present paper is based on E.V. Abramovskikh's theory and typology of creative reception developed by the author of the paper. The author analyzes creative reception strategies in Fowles's poetry and draws a conclusion on the interaction of tradition and reality in it.