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UKRAINIAN WROTE FOR FREE WORLD Spirit of Patriotism in Her Verse Is Universal by MAURINE HALLIBURTON “Spirit of Flame” by Lesya Ukra- inka (Bookman Press $5). Although practically unknown to American readers, Lesya Ukrainka is a poet of universal significance in that sue voices the patriotism, hopes and ambitions of a people confined by centuries of political and cultur al oppression and bondage. Her name is linked with the greatest of her country. Bom Feb. 26, 1871, she was an in valid most of her life, which ended Aug. 1, 1913. Her real name was La- rysa Petrivna Kosacheva. The name Lesya is a diminutive of Larysa. Le sya Ukrainka literally is “Lesya of the Ukraine,” a pen name taken foi safety's sake when she began to write at the age of 12. This was nec essary owing to the banning of the use of the Ukrainian language in the Russian Empire several years earlier. Russia was attempting to win over the youth of the country to Great Russian domination and to bury their own hopes and aspirations. Lesya’s poems were sent by her mother to Galicia for publication. Herself a patriot and an outstand ing figure in Ukrainian literary life, the mother, Olha Petrivna, conducted her children’s education exclusively in Ukrainian instead of the Russian language. From her Lesya learned the elocutions of the people’s speech, its vigorous and terse expressions, and its many poetical images. Her first poem was written under the im pression made upon her by the news that an aunt had been banished to Siberia for alleged subversive activ ity. “Spirit of Flame” consists of selec- - -------------------------------------------------------------------- tions from her lyrical poems, drama- . . tic poems and dramas Often her last of her P°ems> “Orgy,” was pub- ing, confirmed her insights. They messages to her people were conceal- lished the year of her death. have made her a true prophet of the ed in what appeared to be plays of In his foreword to the volume, future and a true historian of the fantasy and folklore. In “On the Clarence A. Manning says: past.” Ruins,” she used the time of the first “She did not live to see the chang- The verse and dramatic pieces in Babylonian captivity to express her es that were to take place in the this volume are a joy to read, their belief that Ukrainians should fight political complexion of Ukrainian language even in translation force- against the Russian domination. “Fo- life, but she had an unerring instinct colorful yet full of the beauty rest Song” is a fairy drama in three for the future, and the modern writ- of poetical imagery. The foreword acts.” “Martianus the Advocate” is ers who are imbued with the love of and introduction add the necessary laid in Puteoli near Naples in the liberty are finding it ever more easy background for understanding and third century A.D. All have symbol- to learn from her and to follow the appreciate of the work, a collection ical significance applicable to Uk- path which she was the first to trav- for the connoiseseur. rainian conditions of her time. The erse. Events have justified her feel- Tulsa Sunday World S pirit of F lame A COLLECTION OF THE WORKS OF LESYA UKRAINKA Translated by Percival Cundy Foreword by Clarence A. Manning Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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