CREATIVITY OF O. NEPRYTSKY-GRANOVSKY IN THE DISCOURSE OF UKRAINIAN LITERATURE

Abstract

The article traces the reception of O. Neprytsky-Hranovskyi’s literary heritage in the two-track literary process, both by critics in exile and in mainland Ukraine. The life and poetry of O. Neprytsky-Hranovsky is a unique phenomenon in the history of our national Ukrainian literature. It is filled to the brim with fruitful work, interesting creative discoveries, and at the same time heroic social and public activities. Therefore, special emphasis is placed on the contribution of the famous literary critic H. Chernykhivskyi to the return to his native land of the “best Ukrainian in America” (G. Humphrey), the poet-intellectual Oleksandr Neprytsky-Hranovskyi. The poet left a significant creative legacy: three books of poetry were published in Ukraine (“Petals of Hope” (1910), “Necklace of Tears” (1911), “Chords” (1914)) and in the United States (“Sparks of Faith” (1953), “Autumn Patterns” (1957), “Hymns to the Sun” (1958), “Dreams of a Ruined Castle” (1964)). The excerpts from the reviews by S. Yefremov, M. Sribliansky (Shapoval), H. Chuprynka, R. Smal-Stotsky, A. Zhukovsky, Y. Mulyk-Lutsyk, D. Chyzhevsky, L. Daleka, V. Svaroh, Y. Boyko, Y. Pundyk, P. Odarchenko, B. Rubchak, H. Cheryn, P. Kovaliv, and others that we have cited show that the poet’s work is not only about the art of the poetry, but also about the art of the poetry itself. Kovaliv testify that O. Neprytsky-Hranovskyi is an original poet with his creative vision of the world, a rare ability to look with admiration and wonder at the most diverse manifestations of human life and nature.