Kalendárová poézia Juraja Palkoviča a Rudo Brtáň
Calendar Poetry by Juraj Palkovič and Rudo Brtáň

Summary/Abstract: The goal of the paper is to explore the forms of calendar poetry written by Juraj Palkovič(1769 – 1850) and to assess the reliability of the related research conclusions drawnby Rudo Brtáň (1907 – 1998). The starting point is Palkovič´s calendar edition Většía zvláštnější nový i starý kalendář/A bigger and more interesting new and old calendar, theindividual editions of which had more or less permanent poetic sections in it: in thecalendar part so-called poems under the months, in the weather lore poems related tothe season and in the insert of the calendar so-called humorous „fairy-tales“. Althoughthe texts in question were analyzed by several researchers, in particular by Rudo Brtáň,the existing findings and conclusions require at least verification, further expansionor, if necessary, corrections. The paper focuses on the thematic and motivic, rhetoricand poetic and prosodic aspects of the original texts and offers complex processing ofthem in the scope of all the editions of the calendar (1805 – 1848). From the viewpointof prosody, poetology and textology (the issue of the author attribution) the paper paysattention to classicisism or roccoco style poems about four seasons. The poems underthe months are used to study the development of Palkovič´s creative personality, ittakes notice of the dynamics of the themes, the rhetoric, poetic and prosodic aspects.The literary motifs monitored throughout Palkovič´s calendar poetry include themotif of a woman and the motif of alcohol. The conclusions show that the results ofBrtáň´s research in this area are still valuable, although rather selectively. They areinvaluable for contemporary researchers when trying to orient themselves in the wideresource base, however, it shows that the original texts require new complex reading,which raises a number of questions still unanswered.

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