This article introduces the poblematic aspects of time and space in poetry of the priest Jan Paweł Woronicz (1757 – 1829). The above – mentioned categories in this poetry serve as awakeners of the national consciousness and identity with the purpose of integrating the nation in the difficult historic perid following the third partition of Poland. The output of the poet is full of references to historical abd biblical figures thanks to whom he performs a kind of synthesis – a prophetic vision of the rebirth of national identity. The concept of time and space is enriched and complemented with references to situations from the personal life of the author and his knowledge of travels. He was also sensitiveto the beauty of the landscape and made references to a mythical pleasent place, otium of nature. He expressed this in different genres of occasional poetry, among which there are songs, panegiryc poems and pastorals.
The article is interested in following the history of the reception of the exceptional example of fifteenth-century poetry in Polish Pieśń o Wiklefie by Jędrzej Gałka of Dobczyn in the period between the discovery of the text in 1815 and the beginning of the First World War. The author discusses the reception of Pieśń o Wiklefie in later works of the Enlightenment poets as well as in texts by Mickiewicz and Norwid (the latter was friends with the poet Antoni Czajkowski, whose father first published Pieśń o Wiklefie). The article concludes with a discussion of the intellectual contacts between the logician Michał Dziewicki – one of the publishers of Wycliffe’s works – and Wittgenstein, who served in the military in Cracow.
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