literary classicism. However, his best verses have many antitheses and conflicting sounds. This writing is similar to John Donne's works and other metaphysical poets. Works Engraving of Derzhavin by Vladimir Borovikovsky Occupation Poet, statesman ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Signature