About the book: year / Recognizing Mey’s formal poetic mastery, Dobrolyubov speaks reservedly about his work. And it’s not just the poet’s predominance of love lyrics and the absence of civic motives. Dobrolyubov’s attitude towards May’s work is determined by the fact that the critic considers the image of “sultry passion” to be its main theme. The rejection of such lyrics is apparently associated with Dobrolyubov’s ethics, in which the view of a woman as an independent person also corresponds to the idea of ​​​​the priority of the spiritual rather than the sensual principle in love.