The aim of the article is to argue that Tuwim’s way of conceptualizing both the world and poetry was based on the principle of stanza. In his opinion, the entire world and our experience of it reach us in a stanzaic form. ...

The article discusses the issue of freedom in the work of Czesław Milosz. This problem is analyzed in relation to prose, poetry, essay writing, journalism, as well as numerous interviews that Milosz gave throughout his ...

The subject of the study focuses on the poetry of the Polish-French literature historian Zygmunt Lubicz-Zaleski (1882–1967). The reason for my research was the Polish edition (2016) of his poetic cycle Relikwiarz buchenwaldzki ...

This article discusses the poetry of Michel Houellebecq. Its reading as a world-view statement is defined by its key notion of freedom. The thus specified reading enables one to identify various meanings of the notion ...

Czesław Miłosz’s poetry displays two reverberating topics which may be defined as contradictory existence and world experiences. One of those is the admiration for the beauty of the world and awe consequent upon capturing ...

Words of Jan Albertrandi which he said in 1770, explaining the reasons for publishing the magazine ‘Zabawy Przyjemne i Pożyteczne’, expressed an enthusiasm about the possibility of achieving by Poles the state of the ...

After Władysław Broniewski’s death, Mieczysław Grydzewski focussed on, in his opinion, the controversial spelling of the word “bóg” (god) in the poem Zagłębie Dąbrowskie with which Polish readers were very much familiar. ...

Artykuł jest propozycją odczytania wiersza Wisławy Szymborskiej „Uprzejmość niewidomych”, z zakwestionowaniem jego pozornej oczywistości. Wskazanie na aspekty, które w tym wierszu mogą budzić zdziwienie, prowadzi do ...

In this article, the authors explore the creative method of Vladimir Aristov on the material of two poems with the involvement of the author’s comments and unique manuscripts. All stages of text creation are tracked. The ...

The use of the colour white, as with other colours evoked by Czesław Miłosz, is not the result of conscious elaboration (technical, philosophical or mystical). Instead, it seems that the colours belong to another level of ...