Stefan Javors’kyj (1658-1722) in relation to the poetry by Jan Kochanowski

Artykuł jest rezultatem badań prowadzonych w ramach grantu "Polskie wzorce literackie i kulturowe w Rosji na przełomie XVII i XVIII wieku: przypadek Stefana Jaworskiego" NCN Opus 13. Bibliogr.: 175-178

Stefan Javors’kyj (1658-1722) was a leading Ukrainian writer in the last decades of the 17th century. Between 1684 and 1691, Javors’kyj published four extensive Polish-Latin panegyrics in Černihiv and Kyiv. He dedicated them to the Bishop Metropolitan of Kyiv, Barlaam Jasyns’kyj, and Hetman Ivan Mazepa. The article aims to show how the works of the Polish Renaissance poet Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584) influenced the Ukrainian poet. The author’s research has shown that Kochanowski inspired Javors’kyj mainly in his first panegyric Hercules. After his studies in Poland and Lithuania, the writer imitated Kochanowski less frequently and looked for inspiration in Polish poetry from the second half of the 17th century.