„Dobre wiersze” i niedobre „wierszęta”: Irzykowski o Leśmianie
“Good Poems” and “Poor Little Poems”: Irzykowski on Leśmian

Author(s): Małgorzata Gorczyńska
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Karol Irzykowski; Bolesław Leśmian; value judgements in literary criticism; aesthetic experience
Summary/Abstract: The article is a detailed analysis of Karol Irzykowski’s review of the poetic collection "Łąka" (1920) by Bolesław Leśmian. It reconstructs the criteria used by the critic to evaluate Leśmian’s book and studies Irzykowski’s discourse built upon an antinomy between “dobre wiersze” (“good poems”) and “wierszęta” (“poor little poems”). As the analysis reveals, Irzykowski’s argumentation served to a significant degree as a self explicationof critic’s personal aesthetic experience.

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