Lyric Poetry in the Mohylanian Poetics
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2015
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Siedina, Giovanna
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Abstract
This article analyses the treatment of lyric poetry in the Mohylanian poetics and takes into
account the wider framework of the conception of poetry fostered at the Kyiv-Mohyla
Academy. The author reconstructs the sources that Mohylanian authors used and then studies
their selective use; she also investigates the numerous poetic quotations from Horace and
M. K. Sarbiewski that Mohylanian authors quoted as examples illustrating the poetic rules,
precepts and principles they wished to impart to their pupils. This analysis confirms that
lyric poetry was mainly conceived by Mohylanian authors as a poetic means to either praise
someone (genus demonstrativum or exornativum) or to convey some moral teaching (genus
deliberativum), and was thus conceived as a means for the moral edification both of those who
practiced it and also those who took pleasure in reading and listening to it.
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Neo-Latin poetry, lyric poetry, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv-Mohylanian poetics, Horace, early modern Ukrainian literature
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Siedina Giovanna. Lyric Poetry in the Mohylanian Poetics [electronic resource] / Giovanna Siedina // Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal. - 2015. - № 2. - P. 43–64.