Nie tylko Ballady i romanse (jeszcze o początkach romantyzmu polskiego w 1822 roku)
Not just Ballads and Romances (more about the beginnings of Polish Romanticism in 1822)

Author(s): Bernadetta Kuczera-Chachulska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, 19th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Kazimierz Brodziński; Mickiewicz’s Ballads and Romances
Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to Kazimierz Brodziński’s dissertation On Elegy, published in 1822, which definitely stands out among other aesthetic writings by this author. It transpires that the convergence between this fact with the publication of Ballads and Romances is not accidental. Brodziński’s acknowledging the nature of elegy works turns out to be remarkably congruent with Adam Mickiewicz’s later, fully Romantic cre- ative practice, in which the distinctive character (and shape) of lyrical works can be clear- ly observed. It is the result of the “confrontation” of the past (memory) with the present. In many Romantic poems, as well as in larger works, e.g. Dziady, what is past becomes a living actuality. It can be said that Brodziński’s theory anticipated in some way the na- ture of Mickiewicz’s works. This is neither an accidental nor an incidental issue.

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