Свое и чужое: механизм заимствований в русской семинарской поэзии второй половины XVIII века (по материалам тверской духовной семинарии)

The article discusses one of the peculiarities of the Russian seminary versifying – the practice of borrowing from other poems. Based on the materials of printed editions and manuscripts of the Tver Theological Seminary, the author of the article shows that in the second half of the 18th century, when composing occasional poetry, seminarians regularly turned to borrowing from earlier school essays and gives examples of various borrowing methods.