The article postulates a fundamental disparity between the two romanticisms represented by Mickiewicz and Słowacki. The author invokes opinions of critics on the relations between the bards, introduced by Manfred Kridl and well established in popular reception. The factors influencing the discrepancy between the literary worlds of Mickiewicz and Słowacki include generational gap, involving heterogeneous life experiences, attitudes to national literature and literary models conditioned by the poets’ belonging to different generations as well as Słowacki’s original poetic imagination and his creative disposition.
The article is devoted to a presentation of so far unknown to a wider public of Polish scholars doctoral dissertation „Wesele” Stanislawa Wyspianskiego. Problemy kompozycji (Stanislaw Wyspianski’s „The Wedding.” Problems of Composition) by Maria Renata Mayenowa. The dissertation, typewritten to date, was composed under supervision of Manfred Kridl in 1932 at Stephen Batory Vilnius University. The author of the article sets the dissertation against the then dominating methodological tendencies, and points out both original and derivative features of Mayenowa’s interpretation.
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