Macieja Kazimierza Sarbiewskiego refleksje o istocie zgodności hermeneutycznej, funkcji poznawczej i etycznej poezji…
The reflections of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski on the hermeneutics and the cognitive and ethical functions of poetry

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the reflections of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595–1640, Polish Jesuit,Latin poet) on the poetry and the rhetoric of his two treatises: Characteres lyrici and De figurissententiarum. The comments are focused on the very interesting aspects in the poetry: the compatibilityof all elements, the subsection of the emotional expression to the thinking process ofthe author (the poet) and the cognitive and ethical role of the poetry (the poet being the creatorand observer of the world, the philosopher, the teacher, the artist and the theorist). Sarbiewskialso comments on the issue of balance between the subject of the poet and the subjectof the receiver, the reader once the poetry is simultaneously creative and honest.

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