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Ukrainian school

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InPolish poetry,theUkrainian schoolwere a group ofRomantic poetsof the early 19th century who hailed from the southeastern fringes of the Polish-inhabited lands of the time (this period followed thepartitionof thePolish–Lithuanian Commonwealth;today mostly part ofUkraine).[1][2]The poets—Antoni Malczewski,Józef Bohdan Zaleski,Tomasz Padura,Aleksander GrozaandSeweryn Goszczyński—produced a distinct style ofPolish Romanticismthrough the incorporation of Ukrainian life, landscapes, history, political events, and folklore into their works.[1]They in turn influenced both Lithuanian and Ukrainian Romantic poetry, and, along with other Polish poets, constituted a link between the various literatures of the post-partition Commonwealth.[2]

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  1. ^abCzesław Miłosz(1983).The History of Polish Literature.University of California Press. pp. 247–249.ISBN0-520-04477-0.
  2. ^abPiotr S. Wandycz(1974).A History of East Central Europe Vol. VII: The Lands of Partitioned Poland, 1795–1918.University of Washington Press. pp. 100–101.ISBN0-295-95358-6.

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