Abstract
The article, based on the historical and literary approach and the systematic research paradigm, examines aspects of the work of Mykhailo Staritskyi, namely, oriental motifs in his work, their literary modeling. The main research method is literary analysis within the framework of a systems approach. The results and conclusions of the research open up new opportunities in the study of issues of the theory and history of literature, in particular the problems of genre, historicism, and inter-literary connections; in the formation of new approaches to understanding the legacy of M. Starytskyi and his place in the Ukrainian literary process of the end of the end of 19th century – beginning of 20th century; in new theoretical and concrete-historical studies on the history of Ukrainian literature, in the field of comparative studies.