Author: Dontsov, Dmytro
Title: Poetka Ukrainskoho Risordzhimenta (Lesia Ukrainka) (the Poetess of the Ukrainian Risorgimento (Lesia Ukrainka))
Description: Lviv, Vydavnytstvo Dontsovykh, 1922. First edition in book form (initially published in the first two issues of "Literaturno-naukovyi vistnyk" journal); 9 x 6; pp. [1], 4-35; bluish-green wraps, printed in black; sunning and a few small spots to margins of wraps; a small note and personal stamp of previous owner to title page (author, activist, and church historian Demyd Burko, pseud. Danylo Sviatogirskyi, 1894 - 1988); chips with small loss of paper to tips of spine; in good to very good condition. Dmytro Dontsov (1883 - 1973) was a Ukrainian author, journalist, and a radical political thinker with great influence over the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Born in a Cossack officer's family, Dontsov joined the Ukrainian Social-Democratic Labor Party in 1905, was arrested shortly after for being an instigator in "Socialist politics," and was forced to move to Vienna in 1909. After the Revolution, he returned home and was appointed Head of Pavlo Skoropadsky's Government's official news agency. By 1922 Dmytro had rejected the Nationalist ideas of his youth and had increasingly become immersed in radical Nationalism. In 1939, right before the takeover of Western Ukraine by the Soviets Dontsov fled his country for Bucharest, then Prague, Germany, Paris, and the United States until he finally settled in Toronto, where he continued writing and taught Ukrainian literature at Universite de Montreal. His current literary criticism, one of his early works, was centered around the writing Lesia Ukrainka, pseudonym of Larisa Kosach--kvitka (1871 - 1913) - poet, dramatist, short story writer, one of the leading female Ukrainian authors, and a topmost name of the Ukraine's Modernist Movement. In it, he wrote: "The key to her style lies in not giving he content of emotions, but merely suggesting their nature and intensity." . Good .

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Ukraine


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