Background
OKSYONOV, Innokentiy was born on June 17, 1897. Son of a teacher.
critic and translator Russian poet
OKSYONOV, Innokentiy was born on June 17, 1897. Son of a teacher.
Graduate 1st Leningrad Medical Institute.
1915 first work published. Typical of his poetry was his contemplative-esthetic approach to reality and his advocacy of life for life’s sake. As a critic, polemicized with the Formalists and the Marxists on the grounds that they hampered the organic development of literature
Insisted that the writer should maintain an orthodox approach and ideological restraint. 1937-1941 acad secretary, Pushkin Social.