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In the second half of the 90's Kosach turned to drama. Her first drama, The Blue Rose (1896), from the life of the Ukrainian intelligentsia, expands on the theme of Ukrainian drama, which until then had portrayed mostly peasants. The drama testified to Lesia Ukrainka's entry into the modern world - first of all the world of the symbol - and her rather free "self-feeling". To cover the topic of human norm and abnormality, the writer thoroughly prepared and studied issues, consulted with psychiatrist Alexander Drahomanov. Imposing the philosophical discourse of drama, imposing on the work of Hauptmann, presents not only madness as a form of freedom, but also a certain longing for the body.

And the poetry "Contra spem spero!" (1890) characterizes the ancient understanding of valor (arete), brilliant mastery of mythological illusions, self-creation of a woman warrior. It is this aspect of creativity for many years determined the tone of scientific "forestry". These are the main motives of the poems "To Comrades", "Comrades in Memory", "Sinner", "Slavus - Sclavus", "Fiat nox", "Epilogue" and many others. The motif of freedom takes on a variety of colors: from disobedience to the traditional understanding of the empire to individual choice modus vivendi, which means discovering the truth and serving it. Betrayal on any level is identified with tragedy, with the act of Medea. The lyrics of thirst and hidden triumph associated with the inability to realize their love, exposes the scheme of chivalrous love. The lyrical heroine is a knight who sings to her lady of the heart. The eroticism of such poems as "I would like to embrace you like an ivy", "Your letters always smell of withered roses" - these are mystical praises in honor of the divine mistress.

After that, Lesya Ukrainka worked for a decade and created more than a hundred poems, half of which were never published during her lifetime.
Lesya Ukrainka entered the canon of Ukrainian literature primarily as a poet of courage and struggle. Her thematically rich lyrics are somewhat conditionally (due to the relationship of motives) divided into personal, landscape and civic. The main themes of her early lyrical poetry: the beauty of nature, love for his native land, personal experiences, the purpose of the poet and the role of the poetic word, social and social motives. In the first works the influences of Shevchenko, Kulish, Starytsky and Heine are noticeable, the clear influences of Olena Pchilka and Mykhailo Drahomanov (pseudonym - Ukrainian) on the choice of motives are visible

Lesya Ukrainka's literary activity revived in the mid-1980s, when the Kosachs moved to Kyiv and became a co-founder of the Pleiades literary circle, surrounded by the Lysenko and Starytsky families. At the request of the Pleiades in 1889 she compiled her famous List of World Literature for Translation. In 1892, Heinrich Heine's Book of Songs was published in Lviv, translated by Lesia Ukrainka (together with M. Slavinsky). The first collection of her original poems "On the Wings of Songs" appeared in Lviv (1893), the second edition - in Kiev (1904), there was also published the second collection "Thoughts and Dreams" (1899), the third "Reviews" (1902) - in Chernivtsi.

Larysa Kosach began to write poetry at the age of nine: she wrote the poem "Nadiya" under the influence of the news about the fate of her aunt Olena Antonovna Kosach (married Teslenko-Prikhodko), exiled for participating in the revolutionary movement. In 1884 the poems "Lily of the Valley" and "Sappho" were first published in the Lviv magazine "Zorya" and the name Lesya Ukrainka was recorded; In subsequent reprints of the poem "Sappho" Lesya added a dedication to her brother: "Dear Shura Sudovshchikova in memory." In 1885 a collection of her translations from Mykola Gogol (made jointly with Mykhailo) was published in Lviv.

She had an older brother, Mykhailo, and younger ones, Olga, Oksana, Mykola, and Izidor Kosach.
He spent his childhood in Volyn: in Novohrad-Volynskyi (1871 - spring 1879), Lutsk (spring 1879 - May 1882), in the village of Kolodyazhne (since May 1882), near Kovel. Writers, artists, and musicians often gathered at the Mowers' House; arranged evenings and home concerts. Larysa Kosach had exceptionally favorable circumstances for polishing her innate artistic flair.

His father, Petro Antonovich Kosach, was a nobleman, a highly educated landowner who loved literature and painting, a real state councilor, and a county marshal.
Uncle - Mikhail Drahomanov, scientist, public figure, before forced emigration to France and Bulgaria, worked with Frank. He formed the character of his niece in accordance with his socialist beliefs, the ideals of service to the homeland, which she outgrew, helped as a literary critic and folklorist.

Her mother, Olga Petrovna Drahomanova-Kosach, a noblewoman by birth, poet and children's writer under the pseudonym Olena Pchilka, was an activist in the Ukrainian women's movement and published the almanac The First Wreath. Olena Pchilka was engaged in comprehensive education, support of creativity and treatment of Larysa Kosach (private teachers, publications, travel), and raised her daughter as a strong person without excessive expression of feelings. A trace of this "paidei" can be found in every work of the "single man".

She wrote in the genres of poetry, poetry, epic, drama, prose, journalism, developed the genre of dramatic poetry in Ukrainian literature. She worked in the field of folklore (sang 220 folk melodies) and actively participated in the processes of Ukrainian national revival.
Among the artistic heritage are collections of poems "On the Wings of Songs" (1893), "Thoughts and Dreams" (1899), "Reviews" (1902), poems "Ancient Tale" (1893), "One Word" (1903), drama poems "Cassandra" (1901-1907), "In the Catacombs" (1905), "Forest Song" (1911), "Fireplace Master" (1912), "Noblewoman" (1913).

Lesya Ukrainka (real name Larysa Petrovna Kosach, married Kosach-Kvitka; 13 (25) February 1871, Zviahel, Volyn Province, Russian Empire [5] - July 19 (August 1) 1913, Surami, Tiflis Province, Russian Empire (now Georgia) - Ukrainian writer, translator, folklorist, cultural figure, co-founder of the literary circle "Pleiades" and the group Ukrainian Social Democracy. In the modern Ukrainian tradition is included in the list of the most famous women of ancient and modern Ukraine