Melnyk O. Mykola Мarkevych's Creative Activity in the Context of European Romanticism.

The dissertation presents an attempt to analyze the system of literary relationships of M. Markevych's creativity with the artistic achievements of national literary systems related and unrelated people in the cultural and historical context of the Romantic era, the problem of Ukrainian Byronism is developed as a specific literary phenomenon, the identity perception is found of the Ukraine's image in the M. Markevych's and A. Mickiewicz's heritage. In the dissertation the comparative-typological analysis of poetic hoaxes and pastiches in the various genres texts (the ballad, the song, the poem) of the Romantic era in the works of M. Markevych, and L. Borovykovs'kyi, A. Metlyns'kyi, T. Shevchenko is made. The reception forms of the Ivan Mazepa's image is revealed in literary-documentary essays "The History of Malorosia" by M. Markevych and in the works "Mazeppa" by G. Byron, "Mazeppa" by V. Hugo, "Voinarovskyi" by K. Ryleev, "Poltava" by A. Pushkin, "Mazeppa" by B. Lepkyj, "The History of Russy" by H. Konis'kyj. Typological similarities and differences are considered in the collections of poems "Ukrainian melodies" by M. Markevych and "Irish Melodies" by T. Moore, the meaningful characteristics of creative perception and transformation of images and motifs in the F. Schiller's and M. Markevych's works are interpreted. It is analyzed the national identity of H. Heine and M. Markevych folk romanticism.