Іван Прокоф’єв – поет і дослідник літератури

Abstract

The article deals with the artistic creativity and literary studies work of writers who at diff erent times were students or teachers of the University of Kamianets-Podilskyi. In particular, the literary and literature studies heritage of Ivan Prokofi ev is outlined, some aspects of his creative evolution are highlighted, the specifi cs of poetic and scientifi c research, some details of their interactions are revealed, psychological factors of their mutual intensifi cations are analyzed.I. Prokofi ev’s poetic works are full-fl edged, artistic and informative. The au-thor’s own poetic practice signifi cantly helped him to penetrate into the deep layers of other writers’ poetics form and content, which provided the scientifi c novelty of his research. The possession of the ability of creating images activated the intuition of the scientist in the comprehension of complicated associative complexes.The study of Leonid Talalai’s poetics performed by I. Prokofi ev is analyzed separately. It is about the infl uence of I. Prokofi ev’s poetic abilities on his compre-hension of the form and content peculiarities of L. Talalai’s works, in particular the intuitive foundations of the latter’s poetry. The methods of psychological refresh-ment of reception and comprehension of poetic works used by I. Prokofi ev are ana-lyzed. As one of the most important facets of L. Talalai’s poetics, I. Prokofi ev con-siders the historiosophical motives of his lyrics, traces the evolution of the writer’s understanding of the Ukraine’s historical role from ancient times to the present.The experience of I. Prokofi ev’s implementation of the slow, hypersensi-tive reading method of poetic texts, the reception in the state of proposed by him «literary clairvoyance» of author’s individual methods of creating images and integration of deep poetic meanings is noteworthy. The article can be useful for researchers of individual poetics and other literary critics.In our opinion, the scientifi c practice of poets who deal with literary studies, including I. Prokofi ev, has certain prospects for the more profound study of fi ction.