Poetka i ezoterycy. Twórczość Marii Konopnickiej na Śląsku Cieszyńskim
Poet and Esotericists Maria Konopnicka’s Works in Cieszyn Silesia

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the issues linked with Maria Konopnicka’s stays and works in Cieszyn Silesia. She not only visited the region, but also published her poems in the local press, thus supporting the national movement. On the occasion of the poet’s jubilee, it was planned to purchase a national gift in the form a wooden villa located in Wisła and built by Julian Ochorowicz, but this plan did not come to fruition. The most interesting phenomenon is the reception of Konopnicka’s output in Cieszyn Silesia. Her works were adapted by local esotericists for their own purposes. Her less known texts were willingly published in the columns of such esoteric periodicals as “Odrodzenie” (“Rebirth”), “Hejnał” (“Bugle Call”), or “Wiedza Duchowa” (“Spiritual Knowledge”). Konopnicka was also a member of Eleuteria— an organisation founded by Wincenty Lutosławski to promote abstinence—for which in 1905 she composed Hymn Elatów (Hymn of the Eleutherians).

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