Maksym Rylsky

Works

Rylsky began writing poetry at a young age. His debut poem was published in 1907 in the newspaper Rada, and his first collection, At White Isles , was released in 1910. By 1918, his poems "Tsarevna" and "On the Edge of the Forest", as well as his collection Beneath Autumn Stars, demonstrated that his period of apprenticeship and imitating the voices of other poets had passed. His 1922 collection, Blue Distance, confirmed this.

Rylsky studied medicine, history and philosophy in Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv.

Throughout the 1920s, Rylsky continued to write poetry. During this time, he published several collections of poetry, including Through Storm and Snow (1925), The 13th Spring (1926), Where Roads Meet, and Hum and Rumbling (both 1929). In the latter collection, Rylsky demonstrated his skill as a translator of world poetry, including works by Paul Verlaine, He published about 30 collections of original poetry during his lifetime, as well as translations and scholarly works. Awarded the State Prize of Ukraine in 1943 Stalin Prize, 1943 - for his collections of poems Slovo pro ridnu matir, Svitova zorya, Svitla zbroya, Mandrivka v molodist Stalin Prize, 1950 - translation into Ukrainian of the poem "Pan Tadeusz" by Adam Mickiewicz Lenin Prize, 1960 - for his collections of poems Daleki neboskhyly (1959) and Troyandy j vynohrad (1957) Elected a full member of the Academy of Sciences