Pan Cogito i Pan Credo razem idą przez świat
Pan Cogito and Pan Credo Together Go Across the World

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the adventures of a reader and a poet involving "Pan Cogito", a volume of poems by Zbigniew Herbert, and recalls reading the first two poems: "Pan Cogito rozważa różnicę między głosem ludzkim a głosem przyrody" and "Sekwoja". An attempt at tackling the entirety of being and history provides a key to understanding the metaphysical and ethical motifs of Herbert’s poetic oeuvre. A dialogue with the poetic persona of Pan Cogito gives rise to the poetic persona of Pan Credo, present in poems by Alfred Marek Wierzbicki. The latter do not contain a polemic; this is rather an encounter and a mutual accompaniment of two spiritual experiences.

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