Poezja Patrycjusza
A Patrician’s Poetry

Summary/Abstract: In her Poszukiwanie blasku. O poezji Adama Zagajewskiego [‘In search of brightness. Poetic works of Adam Zagajewski], Anna Czabanowska-Wróbel discusses the basic motifs appearing in Zagajewski’s output. One such motif is aspiration after a space of spiritual values, as mentioned in the study’s title; another – the poet’s dialogue with literary tradition, painting, music, and philosophy. The scholar analyses the main elements of Adam Zagajewski’s imagination, among which fire and air are dominant. She sets a borderline between reality and poetry in Zagajewski’s works, stressing that defence of a high style and ardour attempts at levelling the turmoil of everyday life in the space of art. Zagajewski’s elegiac tone sets his untragic, distanced aesthetics, thus shaping patrician attitude of a poet involved in spiritual labour. Zagajewski continues considerations of T.S. Eliot who was of opinion that poetry cannot be too dark as regards description or its linguistic layer, whilst the artist should not aspire to show things existent beyond the verse. The patrician enclave forms a shelter where Adam Zagajewski has for years been having a lowered conversation with other aristocrats of literature, and with himself.

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