Oleksa Kovalenko, Ukraïns′ka Muza: Poetychna antolohiia od pochatku do nashykh dniv [The Ukrainian Muse: An Anthology of Poetry from the Beginning until Today]

Yelena Severina (University of California, Los Angeles)

Ed. by Roman Koropeckyj, University of California, Los Angeles
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.1.00: Slavic and Russian Writing and Culture: Old, Medieval and Tsarist, 700-1917.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1908

Places

Ukraine (Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Anthology/ Collection

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Ukraïns′ka Muza

[The Ukrainian Muse] is a 1908 anthology of Ukrainian poetry that was published by poet, editor, translator, and literary historian Oleksa Kovalenko (1880–1927). Printed by Petro Bars

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kyi’s Kyiv-based publishing house, the anthology is significant for including works that had never before appeared in print in the Russian Empire, although some were edited (with the permission of their authors) to accommodate imperial censorship. The ambitious project spans more than a century of Ukrainian poetry, ranging from the proto-romantic texts that capture the vanishing world of the Cossacks to

fin-de-siècle

poetry, with its rejection of populism and village realism.

Ukraïns′ka muza joined a short list of earlier anthologies of Ukrainian poetry, among them, Antolohiia

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Citation: Severina, Yelena. "Ukraïns′ka Muza: Poetychna antolohiia od pochatku do nashykh dniv". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 04 May 2021; last revised 07 June 2021. [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=39457, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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