DWA POLSKIE SPOTKANIA MARTINA OPITZA – Z „PANEM STROBLEM” I WŁADYSŁAWEM IV, ALBO O POETYCE PANEGIRYKU
MARTIN OPITZ’S TWO POLISH ENCOUNTERS—WITH “MR. STROBEL” AND LADISLAUS IV, OR ON THE POETICS OF THE BAROQUE PANEGYRIC

Summary/Abstract: Analysis of Martin Opitz’s poetics of panegyric pieces in honour of two Polish personages—a painter Bartłomiej Strobel and King Ladislaus IV of Poland—is made subject of the paper. Displaying the rela-tionship between the poet and the king, the author focuses more on the aesthetic connections than onthe subjective ones. Opitz, exploiting the canon of erudite panegyric, addressed to learned receivers,attempts to portray Strobel’s achievements, and the painter is praised as vir doctus, namely art theo-retician. Thus, what he means is implementation of Horatian image ut pictura poesis. Poetics of thepanegyric is presented in the context of “last hand” version (sylvae genetics complexity) and with respectto Opitz’s epigrams connected with Strobel, but first and foremost in the context of genetic observationsfrom Das Buch von der deutschen Poeterei (Book of German Poetics, 1642). The panegyric to honour thePolish King appears totally contradictory in its nature and addresses, besides following Gerhard vonDönhoff’s political initiative, to German infidels inhabiting Poland. The author points at the poem’smediative character and formulates a thesis that the piece could have been directed to Swedish élites,justifying King Ladislaus IV’s not only dynastic, but also ethical rights to the Swedish throne.

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