CREATIVITY OF WRITERS-«ZIEVONCHYKS» IN EVALUATION OF LITERARY CRITIC MIHAL GRABOVSKYJ

Abstract

This article dials with the analysis of work of writers that belonged to the group of “Zievonia” through the prism of critic literary views of the Polish critic М. Grabovskyj. Determined, that the most obvious poetic capabilities М. Grabovskyj recognized in J. Borkovskyj and D. Magnushevskyj, but the special writer talent for the adopted artists of criticisms did not educed. М. Grabovskyj distinguished two incomparable translators of ancient and folk works – L. Semenskyj and А. Belyovskyj, their translations, thought the artist, considerably enriched Polish literature. М. Grabovskyj estimated very high ancient labours of K. Vojchitskyj, his collection of proverbs, parables, songs, legends critic considered as a large treasure of Polish literature, that had to influence on evolution of polish literary positively and mightily. But this figure was estimated ambiguously: as a collector of folklore K. Vojchitskyj was enough highly perceived by М. Grabovskyj, however did not saw him as a writer. Also L. Semenskyj was marked by M. Grabovskyj as a “not so good” writer, but as a translator of the greatest level. Thus, to «Zievonchyks» were heard not only dithyrambs but also objective estimations of work.

Among all representatives of group «Zievonchyks» separate attention of М. Grabovskyj was dedicated to S. Goshchynskyj as one of its brightest representatives, that partly, to our opinion, was determined by the long-term friendship of both masters. M. Grabovskyj noticed that S. Goshchynskyj had unsurpassed ability to pass the mood of work by descriptions of landscape and he did not have competitors of this ability even among the representatives of Polish literary of that time.

Poetic school «Zievonchyks» was distinguished by admiration of slavs, and adopting of paints of the folk Slavic poetry. М. Grabovskyj sympathized with slavs tendencies in works of many representatives of this group, and Grabovskyj estimated positively.