Eneida
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Eneida (, ) is a burlesque poem in the Ukrainian language, written by Ivan Kotliarevsky in 1798. This mock-heroic poem is considered to be the first literary work published wholly in the Ukrainian vernacular. The talented depiction of various elements of the life of the Ukrainian people in the context of language, history, traditions and everyday life brought the poem great success among contemporaries, caused many imitations, and led to the final displacement of the old literary language from the literary use by the vernacular.
Key facts
- Book.name
- Aeneid
- Book.title_orig
- Енеїда
- Book.translator
- Bohdan Melnyk
- Book.image
- First Eneyida.jpg
- Book.caption
- The first edition of Kotliarevsky's Eneyida, 1798
- Book.author
- Ivan Kotliarevsky
- Book.country
- Russian EmpireCanada
- Book.language
- Ukrainian
- Book.genre
- Travesty, poem
- Book.publisher
- Maksym Parpura (in Ukrainian, first ed.)The Basilian Press (in English, full ed.)
- Book.pub_date
- 1798 (first 3 parts)1842 (in full)
- Book.english_pub_date
- 1933 (first stances)2004 (in full)
- Book.pages
- 279
- Book.isbn
- 978-0921-5-3766-3
- Book.followed_by
- Natalka Poltavka «Москаль-чарівник» ''''
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- narrative poetry
- Author
- Ivan Kotliarevskyi
- Country of origin
- Ukraine
- Based on
- Aeneid
- Image
- First Eneyida.jpg
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- WikiProject Ukraine
- Commons category
- Aeneid by Ivan Kotlyarevsky
- title
- Енеида. На малороссійскій языкъ перелиціованная И. Котляревскимъ.
- work available at URL
- uk.wikisource.org/wiki/Енеїда
- characters
- Aeneas
- language of work or name
- Ukrainian
- publication date
- 1798-00-00
- copyright status
- public domain
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- Synopsis
- І
- ІІ
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- Analysis
- English translation
- List of English translations
- Cultural influences
- In art
- In other spheres
- Adaptations
- Theatre
- Film
- Other genres
- References
Eneida (, ) is a burlesque poem in the Ukrainian language, written by Ivan Kotliarevsky in 1798. This mock-heroic poem is considered to be the first literary work published wholly in the Ukrainian vernacular. The talented depiction of various elements of the life of the Ukrainian people in the context of language, history, traditions and everyday life brought the poem great success among contemporaries, caused many imitations, and led to the final displacement of the old literary language from the literary use by the vernacular.
Eneida is a parody of Virgil's Aeneid, where Kotliarevsky transformed the Trojan heroes into Zaporozhian Cossacks. It is a loose retelling of N. P. Osipov's 1791 (), written in Russian; the latter being a free translation of Aloys Blumauer's Virgils Aeneis, travestiert (1784), which in turn hails back to Paul Scarron's 1648 poem Le Virgile travesty en vers burlesques. Critics believe that it was written in the light of the destruction of Zaporozhian Host by the order of Catherine the Great. The poem was written during the formation of romanticism and nationalism in Europe. At that time, part of the Ukrainian elite was gripped by nostalgia for the Cossack time.
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