O Liście do lisowczyków przypisywanym Olbrychtowi Karmanowskiemu
On List do lisowcz yków ascribed to Olbrycht Karmanowski

Author(s): Janusz Ziembiński
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The article constitutes an attempt to read out List do lisowczyków, a poetic insult at a famous unit,ascribed to Olbrycht Karmanowski. This attribution was retained. What was rejected, on the otherhand, was a combination of a poem with notes on lisowczyki in Karmanowski’s correspondence from1625 as a basis of this attribution present so far in the literature. The poet had many possibilities ofcoming across their plunders, especially between 1619 and 1623 when the problems with lisowczykiwere given the biggest place in the literature. This hypothetical time of List… is most probable.Reading out the poem allows for a conclusion that this is a work of a precise rhetorical organizationand rather an example of a “high” civic poetry than a literary journalism. The author wasan outstanding and technically good poet. Similar poetical means are observed in Kochanowski’sworks, which, without a doubt, were written by him.List… confirms the historians’ opinions on the nature of lisowski formation, the Polish, noble,and deprived of religious motivation in its actions. It is a look of a nobleman and citizen, perhaps alsoconnected with the military state. Formulating a moral and social evaluation, the author appreciatesa military value of the famous regiment.

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