Ucrainica at Harvard
The Ukrainian Research Institute's 25th-Anniversary Exhibition at Houghton Library, Harvard University
The Ukrainian Research Institute's 25th-Anniversary Exhibition at Houghton Library, Harvard University
22. Ivan Kotliarevs'kyi (1769-1838)
Eneida
(The Aeneid)
Kotliarevs'kyi's travesty of Virgil's Aeneid follows in the tradition of existing 17th and 18th century parodies of the epic, including those by Paul Scarron, Aloys Blumauer, and Nikolai Osipov and Aleksandr Kotel'nitskii. The innovative aspect of the work lies in its use of the Ukrainian vernacular, a new verse form, and careful attention to ethnographic detail.
Bayard L. Kilgour, Jr. Fund, December 1971.