Norwidowskie Próby jako świadectwo wielostronnego przełomu
Norwid’s Próby as testimony to a multifaceted breakthrough

Summary/Abstract: After reconstructing the intricate chronology of the creation of Próby [Trials] and Pięć zarysów [Five Sketches], the author of the article points out the editorial and interpretative problems arising from this fact. The author reads Próby as the epilogue (rather than the prologue) of Pięć zarysów. She justifies her decision not only with the hypothesis of the poem’s origin as the last link in the cycle opening the volume Poezje [Poems] published at Brockhaus, but also with the presence of references to other works by Norwid written around the same time. She interprets the work as a praise and elegiac farewell to Romantic song and, at the same time, a question about the shape of a lyric that could save the ethical message and religious tone of departing poetry in the changing civilisational context. This emphasises the poet’s hesitation, irony, but also – a call to face the challenge.

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