Abstrakt: | The book Cyprian Norwid. A Poet of the Nineteenth Century is first
and foremost devoted to Norwid’s poetic oeuvre. For the author
of the monograph, a major point of contention remains treating
Norwid mainly as a brilliant philosopher and theologian, which
has lately become quite customary. The monograph addresses
the issue of Norwid’s belonging to a particular literary period:
until not so long ago, it seemed obvious to everyone that he was
a Romantic, and this view has only recently been challenged.
Hence the title of the book – indicating the complexity of the
Norwid phenomenon, the poet whose output cannot be contained
within a single artistic movement and who, therefore, needs
to be studied through a prism of the “nineteenth-century-ness”
concept that has been advanced in the recent years. |