The phenomenon of measured, harmonised speech, which is one of the most familiar characteristics of poetry for the general public, has attracted the attention of the intellectual elite for thousands of years. Philosophers and philologists, psychologists and theologians, critics and poets, sociologists, cultural studies scholars, and countless others. From Plato to Bakhtin, from Socrates to Paul Valéry. However, let us not suffer from philosophical pedantry and list at least the epoch-making milestones associated with the science of poetics.
I would like to make one small remark right away: poetics is a multifaceted science; it studies not only, and not so much, poetry as aesthetics, the laws of artistic creativity, the canons of beauty and what we call beauty.