Published: 2019-12-28

Surges, Deviations, and Laments, That Is, Imitators Versus the Need for Novelty

Elwira Buszewicz Logo ORCID
Section: Essays and Articles
https://doi.org/10.31261/ssp.2019.14.03

Abstract

Precursors and forerunners, when they seek for novelty, establish some norms and frameworks which, in turn, become defining for poetical genres and currents. So, what is the right of an imitator to search for new paths? The subject of the article are meta-poetic declarations of creators, who willingly and consciously follow in the footsteps of their great predecessors. The author points to the metaphors by means of which the poets defend their “space of freedoms” or concede to their powerlessness. The cases of the following poets are considered: Józef Bartłomiej Zimorowic in relation to Szymon Szymonowicz, Albert Ines and Andrzej Kanon in relation to Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski. Especially close attention was given to problematics and contexts of Albert Ines’s words prefacing a collection of poems that are quoted and translated in the article.

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Buszewicz, E. (2019). Surges, Deviations, and Laments, That Is, Imitators Versus the Need for Novelty. Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne [Silesian Journal of Polish Studies], 14(2), 45–66. https://doi.org/10.31261/ssp.2019.14.03

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okładka Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne 2019, nr 2 (14)

Vol. 14 No. 2 (2019)
Published: 2020-06-26


ISSN: 2084-0772
eISSN: 2353-0928

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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