Poeta i śmierć
The Poet and the Death
Author(s): Zofia GłombiowskaSubject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Ianitius; Ovid; elegy; joy of life; friendship; hope; death; consolation; philosophy; God.
Summary/Abstract: The article concerns Klemens Janicki (1516–1543), a Polish poet who wrote in Latin. The author first presentsthe character and predilections of the poet (iuvenis iocosus), she also stresses – on the basis of Janicki’s ownwords – the difference of his fortune when compared with the fortune of Ovid (Naso beatus, the exile and thedeath). Finally, she analyses his vision of God (Pater blandissimus) and heaven, in which he found consolationin a deadly disease.
Journal: Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae
- Issue Year: XXVII/2017
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 143-153
- Page Count: 11
- Language: Polish