Julian Przyboś and the Literary Genres
Julian Przyboś and the Literary Genres

Summary/Abstract: This article reviews the various ways in which Julian Przyboś dealt withgenre conventions in his poetry. He used old forms of prose poetry,reworked the convention of hymn, ode and sonnet, wrote lullabies andrhymes, and, as one of the first poetry writers, brought the non-literarygenres into poetry (letter, menu, postcard, note). Przyboś is also a prolificauthor of articles published in periodicals, prefaces and afterwords in booksby other authors, or texts included in joint publications, many of which wereforgotten or scattered. Through recalling these mostly concise publications afuller reconstruction of Przyboś’s attitude to genre conventions is enabledand helps to track the generic evolution of the avant-garde poet. Also, anew perspective is provided by reviewing the poet’s home archive, whichhas been kept by his wife thus far. The poet paid attention to formconsciously constructed structure to his compositions, with precision andscrupulousness, forming complex, though apparently simple constructions. The hesitation accompanying the classification of some of the notes onlyconfirms the innovative character of his poetry, putting forward new forms,which undertake the game with tradition and exploit the richness of modern Polish.

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