The present essay addresses the issue of the participation of Catholic priests in the shaping of Polish literature. The author discusses some aspects of the changes Polish poetry experienced after, respectively, the first and the second world wars. Against this background, he points to the metaphysical nature of contemporary Polish poetry, most clearly visible in the output of poet-priests, and extensively discusses the poems by Fr. Kazimierz Wójtowicz. Translated by Dorota Chabrajska
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Esej poświęcony jest kwestii udziału duchownych w kształtowaniu literatury polskiej. Autor omawia niektóre aspekty przemian, jakie dokonały się po pierwszej i drugiej wojnie światowej w poezji polskiej. Wskazuje na metafizyczny charakter tej poezji, szczególnie obecny w twórczości osób duchownych. Na tym tle prezentuje utwory ks. Kazimierza Wójtowicza.
In the essay, the author has included a textological analysis of the numerous notes Fr. Prof. Tadeusz Styczeń, the late editor-in-chief of Ethos, made in his copy of Cyprian Norwid’s Vade-mecum throughout the years of his repeated reading of that volume. The notes in question became subsequently the basis for the ideas Styczeń put forward and developed in his articles on moral philosophy. Styczeń frequently referred to Norwid, whom he believed to have been the best Polish philosopher poet. Summarized by Dorota Chabrajska