Lesya Ukrainka and Adam Mickiewicz: in the sphere of the Crimean Sonnets
Journal: The Repository of University in Bialystok (University in Bialystok)
Year: 2025

The paper compares literary imagery and Crimean themes in the writings of Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855), the most eminent poet of Polish Romanticism, and Lesya Ukrainka (born Larysa Kosacz, 1871–1913), the most prominent representative of Ukrainian modernism. In particular, it focuses on Mickiewicz’s “Crimean Sonnets” and Lesya Ukrainka’s “Crimean Memories”, which describe her impressions of a journey made in 1890 and 1891. The analysis uses the category of ‘displacement’, or change of place, prop