Levko Borovykovsky (
orovykovs'kyj(22 February 1806 – 26 December 1889 in Myliushky village,
Poltava Governorate,
Russian Empire) was a
Ukrainian
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* Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe
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romantic poet, writer,
translator, and
folklorist
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.
After graduating in 1830 from
Kharkiv University, Borovykovsky taught in a Kursk gymnasium and from 1839 in the Poltava Institute for Daughters of the Nobility. In 1852 he became a gymnasium inspector in Poltava gubernia and retired a few years later. His works were first published in 1828, and he was one of the first poets of the Kharkiv Romantic School.
Of his numerous poems, the most notable is the
ballad ''Marusia'' (1829), an adaptation of
Gottfried August Bürger's ballad ''
Lenore'' (1796) and reminiscent of
Vasilii Zhukovsky's ''Svetlana'' (1813). Levko Borovykovsky successfully nationalised the Gothic-Romantic theme of ''Marusia'', enriching its plot with elements of Ukrainian
ethnography
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, including
folklore.
[
During his lifetime only one collection of his writings was published, ''Baiky i Prybaiutky'' ables and Sayings(1852), which brought him recognition as a storyteller. He also translated the poetry of ]Horace
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, Aleksandr Pushkin
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, and Adam Mickiewicz,[Levko Borovykovsky]
Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine. University of Toronto
References
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1806 births
1889 deaths
National University of Kharkiv alumni