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Bolesław Leśmian: The Poet and His Poetry. By Rochelle Heller Stone. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976. xii, 364 pp. $15.95.

The characterization of most of these periods and their representatives is based strongly on literary analysis. At the same time, it is far from being narrowly formalists, because it has been composed with a regard for deeper cultural and social influences, as well as for world-wide philosophical and literary trends. According to the editor of the translation, Cizevsky's analyses of the Ukrainian Baroque and of the Romantic period demonstrate his great erudition and his capability of logically relating these periods of Ukrainian literature to world literature in general, and to Slavic literatures in particular. Cizevsky's History does contain some flaws. The author does not cover the whole development of Ukrainian literature. He does not include the characterization of the last and richest period, twentieth-century Modernism, which was defined in his periodization formula. (A description of this period could be the subject of a separate volume, prepared by several other literary scholars, as Luckyj suggests.) His analyses of such original genres in Ukrainian literature as dumy and vertep (the Christian puppet theater), as well as of the whole period of Realism, are presented rather schematically and do not give a complete picture of their development. Some of these shortcomings were discussed by G. Shevelov in his review of the Ukrainian edition published in Ukrains'ka literaturna haseta (1956, no. 6) and are also mentioned by Luckyj in his foreword to the English translation. None of these drawbacks, however, can minimize the monumental nature of this work, a work that can rightfully be considered one of the masterpieces of this great scholar.