Debiut romantyka: Józef Bohdan Zaleski
A Romanticist’s debut – Józef Bohdan Zaleski

Author(s): Henryk Gradkowski
Subject(s): Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the most important facts concerning Józef Bohdan Zaleski’s childhood and youth, accentuating his part in the November Uprising along with his creative interests rooted in his regional identity. The author enumerates the poet’s first literary attempts, subsequently quoting, analyzing and interpreting some of them. The study recalls also literary criticism of the debuting writer’s works, including especially Maurycy Mochnacki’s comments. Some extra attention is devoted to Adam Mickiewicz’s patronage, i.e. his enthusiastic opinions concerning the worth of Zaleski’s poetry, which the author of Pan Tadeusz expressed during his lectures in Paris. The aim of the article is to remind the public of the forgotten poet who used to be famous and who, along with Antoni Malczewski and Seweryn Goszczewski, was one of the greatest creators of the so called Ukrainian trend in Polish Romanticism.

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