The Complete Works of V. A. Zhukovsky, for the first time in editorial practice, represents the legacy of the great Russian poet in the most complete volume to date. Zhukovsky's texts are given on the basis of a critical understanding of all the poet's known autographs and lifetime publications. Volume 12 includes Zhukovsky's critical and aesthetic works, both articles published during the poet's lifetime in magazines and almanacs of the 1810-1820s, and extracts found in the archive from European aesthetic treatises of the 18th century. and notes on the history of European and Russian literature and criticism.