Peculiarities of national identification in works of «Ukrainian school» representatives of Polish literature

The article deals with Ukrainian theme in Polish literature on sample of works of representatives of «Ukrainian school». It was paid the attention to common and different lines of its recreation in poems of Seweryn Goszczyński, Antoni Malczewski, Józef Bohdan Zaleski.

        There were two main reasons of ucrainica appearing in romantic Polish poetry. The first of theme – returning to Ukrainian theme of those artists that were born in the East and spent the most part of their life there. The second reason was the general Polish patriotism to solve the national question in the culture and literature. So the writers that weren’t referred to Kres also started to create Kres myth with the help of Ukrainian questions offered to solve Polish problems. The representatives of «Ukrainian school» followed the first of those motives but the second also had the impact on their works.