Донаукові зацікавлення українським фольклором та етнографією

Abstract

This article is the continuation of the previous material published in Number 1-2, 2005. The author of this article gives analyses of the development of the origins of the folk tradition dating to the 17th - beginning of the 19th ñenturies when approximately the study of folklore began at the scholarly level. We have a detailed description of the historical documents of almost three centuries as materials for analyzing folklore. Then the author goes on with the description of the texts from 17th through the early 19th Century. Special attention was paid to the era of Romanticism as to the time when the entire history and esthetical essence of the folk art was deeply thought over and its value for further development of the national consciousness was realized.