This article aimed to substantiate and systematize scientific research on the influence of T. Padura's work on S. Vorobkevych's poetry. Scientific novelty. Scientific discoveries on the influence of T. Padura's work on S. Vorobkevych's poetry in the aspect of thematic direction, versification and phonics are substantiated. Research methods. Comparative and comparative historical methods are practiced to reveal the influence of T. Padura on the poetics of Bukovynian writer S. Vorobkevych. Conclusions. The study of S. Vorobkevych’s poetic works in the aspect of their comparison with national folklore and the poetry of his predecessors and contemporaries in native and foreign literature and taking into consideration the quantitative (expressed by one component of poetics, several, many) and chronological (constant, occasional: in the beginning, in the middle, at the end of the working life of the artist) hierarchy of influences revealed that he was influenced by both factors at various stages of creativity. The influence of other Ukrainian (I. Kotlyarevsky, M. Shashkevych, M. Ustijanovych, Y. Golovatsky, P. Kulish, A. Metlynsky, Y. Fedkovych, O. Konysky) and foreign (T. Padura, Y.V. Goethe, G. Heine, V. Alexandri, M. Eminescu, I. Geliade-Redulescu, J. Vekerescu) poets was less evident, though different.