Tkachenko O. Curious poetry in the Ukrainian baroque poetry

The thesis is dedicated to study of an integral system of genres of the Ukrainian curious poetry. Curious poetry has been analyzed in the main aspects of the baroque conception of the main point of an artistic word: literal sense, aesthetics and esoteric symbolism. It is determined, that the curious poetry appertains to an epigrammatic kind, the most widespread term used for its definition in the Old Ukrainian poetics is "epigramma artificiosum" ("artistic epigram"). The basis of the curious poetry is synthesis of literature and the arts of type, graphics, music, as well as such sciences as rhetoric, arithmetic, grammar, astronomy, which create the specific character of its genres.