The problem of methodology for studying the identity of national literatures is a pressing issue in contemporary literary studies. Considering that within the framework of the individual creative type of artistic consciousness, the author becomes a key figure in the literary process, studying types of authorial consciousness in multi-level systems (the work of a single writer, a literary movement (movement), or a literary era) is significant for understanding identity. The purpose of this article is to identify and analyze types of authorial consciousness in Gabdulla Tukay’s lyric poetry based on a study of the forms of subject organization. Main objectives: to define subjective forms in G. Tukay’s lyric poems (lyrical “I”, narrator, role-playing lyrics); to establish their relevance to the types of author’s consciousness (enlightenment consciousness, religious consciousness, national consciousness, etc.); to characterize the poet’s lyrical system (single-subject, multi-subject). Research materials: G. Tukay’s poems from 1905 to 1913. The study is based on the method of subjective analysis, the theoretical foundations of which were developed in the works of B.O. Korman and the scientific school he created. As a result of the study, it was established that G. Tukay’s lyrics contain various subjective forms of expressing the author’s consciousness: narrator, lyrical “I”, role-playing lyrics. The diversity of subjective forms corresponds to the diversity of types of author’s consciousness: enlightenment, religious, civic, national. Using the example of the analysis of individual poems, a connection was established between subjective forms and the author’s self-identification.