Lotman Yu. M. Analysis of the poetic text . Text structure : Student Manual. — L. : Publishing house "Enlightenment" Leningrad branch, 1972. — 272 s. — Format 60x90/16. Circulation 27,000 copies. Price 68 k. The book of the famous literary scholar Yu . M. Lotman is devoted to the principles of analysis of poetic text. A literary work performs its social function only because it has a special internal organization of the text. This can be explored in three ways: from the point of view of the connection with a certain historical reality, in relation to other literary texts and from the point of view of the analysis of the internal organization of the artistic whole. It is this last aspect that allows you to see the beauty of the artwork, to determine the causes of the aesthetic impact of the text. In the book offered to the reader, the author puts the questions of the methodology of such an analysis at the center of the presentation .. Its purpose is not so much to acquaint the reader with the results obtained by a particular scientist, but to equip him with methods that would allow him to perform intratext analysis on his own. The first part of the book sets out the theoretical principles of the methodology for analyzing poetic text, the second - demonstrates their application to the study of specific poetic works of the XIX-XX centuries. The Book of Y. M. Lotman will provide significant assistance to the student in working in special seminars devoted to the problems of poetry; it will also be of interest to university teachers and teachers-vocabularies .