Hołd strumienia wobec źródła. Brodski i Polska – dzieje relacji i recepcji
Homage to the Source Stream. Joseph Brodsky and Poland: The History of Relations and Reception

Summary/Abstract: The paper describes Joseph Brodsky’s relation with Poland, its traditions, history and art. The first part presents connections between the Russian poet and Polish literature, between him and Poles setting up the intercultural dialogue; further, it discusses Brodsky’s translational activity. The second part deals with the reception of Brodsky’s poetry in the 1960s, 70s and 80s in Poland. His poems were initially published in official journals, e.g. The Great Elegy for John Donne had its debut there, and thus the work of the author of metaphysical elegies crossed the borders of the Soviet Union for the first time. After his forced emigration, Brodsky’s poems appeared in Polish underground magazines, which also printed texts discussing his poetry and its impact on Polish literature. Brodsky’s poems seem to have constituted an important argument in the debate on classicism at that time. The paper focuses on these issues, because they are a less known chapter of the reception of Brodsky’s work in Poland.

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