ROSYJSKA POEZJA RADZIECKA LAT DWUDZIESTYCH W POLSKIEJ KRYTYCE LITERACKIEJ (1945 - 1948)
RUSSIAN POETRY OF THE TWENTIES IN THE SOVIET UNION AS SEEN BY POLISH LITERARY CRITICS IN 1946 THROUGH 1948

Summary/Abstract: In the years 1945 through 1948 the approach of Polish literary critics to Russian poetry of the twenties was a continuation of the pre-war opinion. The power of the tradition was reflected in the popularization of the already known and acknowledged prominent individuals such as: Mayakowsky, Yesenin, Akhmatova, and Pasternak. A specific manifestation of the literary life of that time were attempts of Polish poets concerned with the philosophy of history to refer to Russian poets of the same trend, and to Pasternak in particular. Nevertheless, Russian poetry of the twenties has been destroyed by a gaining in power and popularity program of discursive — rhetoric poetry. The advocates of the program propagated the agitating model of Soviet poetry aiming at its simplification. This phenomenon reached its culminating point at the end of the period and is particularly evident in Mayakowsky’s literary output, which even though being controversial at that time, become a model. Consequently the picture of Russian poetry of the twenties in the Soviet Union was obviously unclear and oversimplified under the influence of a peculiar character of Polish literary life of that period.

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