Uwagi o polskiej liryce psalmicznej drugiej połowy wieku XVI
Remarks on the Polish Psalm Lyric Poetry of the Second Half of the 16th Century

Summary/Abstract: The article provides a reflection about the shaping of original psalm lyric poetry in the Polish Renaissance poetry of the second half of the 16th century. The author shows its distinctness in contrast to the phenomenon of metrical psalms that served religious instructions, mnemonics, strengthening the congregation unity, all characteristic to Protestant authors. Psalm lyric poetry, in the understanding suggested here, is not a translation of psalm, but rather transcoding and updating its model in the idiom of mother tradition. Also, it refers to this model on the various levels of intertextual relations. The psalmic word in the poetry in question is subject to reconfiguration in order to become a building material of an original lyrical monologue being either individualised or adapted to a given situation (e.g. historical or private), though neither composition nor the content of Old Testament Psalm determines the structure of the piece. Growing, in part, from the experience of the paraphrase, psalm lyric poetry is not identical with it, and the factors stimulating its shaping in Old Polish poetry are Horatianism (Jan Kochanowski’s and Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński’s oeuvre) as well as spiritual Petrarchism (Sebastian Grabowiecki’s lyric poetry).

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