Cypriana Norwida trudny dialog z mistrzem Adamem
CYPRIAN NORWID AND HIS DIFFICULT DIALOGUE WITH MASTER ADAM

Author(s): Grażyna Halkiewicz-Sojak
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Cyprian Norwid; juvenilia; Zwolon; poems written in 1856; Vade-mecum; The Adam Mickiewicz; death and funeral of the poet; Harold Bloom; Anxiety of Influence
Summary/Abstract: The regard Norwid paid to Mickiewicz has long been the subject of academic research but it generally focused on the ideological differences the two poets represented rather than on poetological aspects of their literary work. The subject matter of this article draws attention to the latter. On the basis of Harold Bloom’s methodological inspiration [The Anxiety of Influence] the author of this study demonstrates how Norwid’s poetic perception of Mickiewicz – the pioneer and master model – alters. Also, in Norwid’s juvenilia she identifies the discord of melancholic imagination advocated by Malczewski and optimistic axiology advocated by Mickiewicz. This lack of consistency gradually led to Norwid’s growing reserve to Mickiewicz [Zwolon]. But not until the publishing of poems composed in 1856, which were produced soon after the older fellow poet’s funeral in Paris, did Norwid establish his mature and comprehensive statement on the poetry of the Master and the arguments proving this thesis can later be found in the collection of his poems Vade-mecum.

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