“Home of memories”. Ossianic elements in the works of August Antoni Jakubowski and Maurycy Gosławski
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Keywords

Jakubowski
Gosławski
Ossianic literature
Ukrainian literature
romanticism
19th Century

How to Cite

Dobrowolska, A. M. (2022). “Home of memories”. Ossianic elements in the works of August Antoni Jakubowski and Maurycy Gosławski. Bibliotekarz Podlaski, 55(2), 133–149. https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.697

Abstract

The aim of the article was to trace the similarities between the Songs of Ossian and the works of selected authors of the Ukrainian school, which allowed Maurycy Mochnacki to create in 1826 the metaphor of Ukraine as "Polish Scotland". We are talking about similarities in terms of building mood, creating images of space, reflecting on history, passing and memory, as well as a special sensitivity and way of feeling nature and the world. This metaphor has already been commented on many times, and it also evoked extreme opinions. Stanisław Makowski and Alina Witkowska, among others, found it unfounded, but its sources seem worth re-examining. The work aims to identify those features of Ukraine which, in the eyes of the authors of early Polish Romanticism, made it similar to Osianic Scotland. In the article, fragments of Songs of Ossian will be juxtaposed with selected works of lesser-known poets from the Ukrainian school, August Antoni Jakubowski and Maurycy Gosławski. Indigenous Ukrainian duma, which is related to the Songs of Ossian in general terms by the presence of epic elements, as well as frequently appearing historical topics, is important research material. The Ukrainian steppe was the space where the Kobzar sitting on the grave praised the heroic deeds of the Cossacks, just as Ossian told the stories of Fingal's warriors. This allowed Mochnacki to believe that the poets of the Ukrainian school, referring to indigenous folk art, would create national literature that would play a decisive role in "recognizing the nation as its own being”.

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