„Krzemienieckie smutki” – poetyckie reakcje na śmierć Alojzego Felińskiego
„Krzemienieckie smutki” — poetic reactions to the death of Alojzy Feliński

Summary/Abstract: The article addresses issues pertaining to the laudatory works. The author is interestedin the manner the nineteenth-century poets looked at the figure of Alojzy Feliński —a poet, reformer, husband, father and friend, and thus, the manner they perceived himboth in the public and private sphere. The following poems have been adopted as thebasis for considerations: Konstanty Piotrkowski’s Oda na śmierć Alojzego Felińskiego,Wincenty Turski’s Do cieniów Alozjego Felińskiego, Tymon Zaborowski’s WestchnieniePodolanina, mieszkańca gór miodoborskich, po śmierci Alojzego Felińskiego, and GrzegorzIgnacy Szadbeja’s Elegia na śmierć Felińskiego. The conducted analysis and interpretationare intended not only to depict the portrait of Feliński as presented by the nineteenthcenturypoets, but also became an attempt to contain the discussed works in the sphere ofa new type of laudatory poems. For we obtain an example of a noble model correspondingwith the new manner of understanding the artist and the citizen that has contributedto the national culture and education. The authors of the poems, faithful to the classicor sentimental trend, emphasize the qualities of Feliński (diligence, talent, pragmatismand service to society), that are worthy of public praise. The primary purpose of theundertaken considerations is to demonstrate the changes occurring in the field of poeticsand rhetoric of laudatory works, which are a kind of poetic tribute within the category ofdidactic approval of the Enlightenment period, as an instrument forming personal modelsand inspiring positively valorized social behaviors.

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