Igor Kaczurowskyj

For You, My Beloved Poetry!
The author passionately analyzes the poetic oeuvre of Leonid Pervomais'kyi (1908-1973). Kaczurows'kyj suggests that with the collections of poems "Lessons of Poetry" and "Constellation of a Lyre" (came out during the 1960s) Pervomais'kyi found a niche in the Soviet Ukrainian literature that contained no things "Soviet." The author describes Pervomaiskyi's lyrics as one of the few Ukrainian specimens of gerontologic poetry and notes elements of heredity between the works of Kyivan neo-classicists and those of Pervomaiskyi'.