lesya ukrainka "the forest song"
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Lesya Ukrainka drama's "The Forest Song" one of the the most beloved works of Ukrainian classical literature. A forest nymph Mavka falls in love with a mortal youth Lukash causing a dramatic clash between the world of carefree beauty of the forest and the world of the humans filled with jealousy, passion, rivalry and evil. The "Forest Song" characters include mythological beings from Ukrainian folklore.TRANSCRIPT
THE ELECTRONIC LIBRARY OF UKRAINIAN LITERATUREAn Internet Collection of Freely Accessible Literary Texts
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Lesia UkrainkaForest Song
Translated by
Percival Cundy
Original Publication: Spirit of Flame: A Collection of the Works of Lesya Ukrainka. Translatedby Percival Cundy. New York: Bookman Associates, 1950. Pp. 169–260.
This electronic reprint was prepared for the Electronic Library of Ukrainian Literature
by Maxim Tarnawsky, 2005.