David, Horace and the mystical hussar. Republic, faith and heritage of the Polish Poetry of the 17th century Cover Image

David, Horace et le hussard mystique : République, Foi et Église dans l’héritage de la poésie polonaise du XVIIe siècle
David, Horace and the mystical hussar. Republic, faith and heritage of the Polish Poetry of the 17th century

Author(s): Jacek Kowalski
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Sarmates; contre-reformation; baroque poetry; catholic religiousness

Summary/Abstract: The republican idea of the so-called “golden freedom”was established in Poland in the 16th century as a result of collective actions of the catholic and protestant nobility. In the 17thcentury this idea still joined with the catholic faith and was best incarnated in the poems by Wespazjan Kochowski. Both Wespazjan and his work are now forgotten, but the ideas preached by him are still alive. The Polish religious poetry of the 17th and 18th centuries is directly present in contemporary Polish religiousness.

  • Issue Year: 7/2012
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 99–107
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: French