Apollon Aleksandrovich Grigoryev

Apollon Aleksandrovich Grigoryev (born c. July 20 [Aug. 1, New Style], 1822, Moscow, Russia—died Sept. 25 [Oct. 7], 1864, St. Petersburg) was a Russian literary critic and poet remembered for his theory of organic criticism. He argued that the aim of art and literature, rather than being to describe society, should instead be to synthesize the ideas and feelings of the artist in an organic and intuitively felt unity that has nothing to do with...