Fomina L. The interpretation peculiarities of the ancient myth about Endymion in English poetry of the XIX-th century.

The object is a number of literary versions of the ancient myth about Endymion in English poetry of the XIX-th century. The aim is a comprehensive study of the transformation of the ancient myth about Endymion in English poetry of the nineteenth century. The methods are comparative-historical, analytical and interpretative, structural and semiotic, mythopoetical; motivic and intertextual analysis.The thesis deals with the first research of the interpretation peculiarities of the ancient myth about Endymion in English poetry of the XIX-th century. The functioning features of traditional mythological plot about Endymion are investigated in synchronic and diachronic aspects, the characteristics of the XIX-th century English poetical endymionism are given. A conceptual originality of the ancient Greek myth about Endymion is considered. The origins of the English endymionism (John Lily's and Michael Drayton's versions of the myth) are defined and studied. Different interpretational models of this mythological material in the literary works by John Keats, Donald Hugh Barclay, Steven Phillips, Oscar Wilde are investigated. An artistic originality of English poetic endymionism in the context of various literary movements and trends of the XIX-th century (Romanticism, Aestheticism, Neoclassicism) is described. The poetry about Endymion by Lily, Hood, Wilde, Barclay, Phillips are for the first time translated into the Ukrainian language. The discovery of a little-known English poet Donald Hugh Barclay and an attempt to study his creation give a possibility to introduce a new name to the literature criticism. The sphere is the educational process.