Silvae i sylwy – glosa historycznoliteracka do pewnego nieporozumienia
Silvae and Silvas – a Literary History Gloss to the Misunderstanding

Summary/Abstract: The author in his article proves that the presently immensely popular in Polish literary studies category of the silva is defined as based on contaminating its two different scopes of meaning, namely one rooted in literary genetics, referring to the tradition of popular from the Renaissance Statius’ collection with occasional texts, and the other, utilitarian, connected with the practice of the nobility’s running private home books with notes of various nature. Considering the statements by writers, rhetoricians and poetry theoreticians, and collections of poetry with examples of silvas, the author attempts to clear up that terminological mess.

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