The article presents the problems pertaining to the Polish perception of Scottish, modern Latin writer John Barclay, its manifestations evident in the works by Lukasz Gornicki Jr., Lukasz Opalinski, Jan Andrzej Morsztyn, anonymous texts (including little known prosaic translation of the 'Argenis'), although it focuses on the poem by Waclaw Potocki - 'Argenida', which is an adaptation of the already mentioned famous Barclay's novel of 'Argenis'. Under analysis are technique of paraphrase and a model of lecture objectivised in it, which testifies that the political issues included in the literary work of the Scotsman induced the Sarmatian poet to interpret the 'Argenida' as a novel pertaining to the 17th-century Poland, and for him became a means of expression of his own political views. According to the opinion of the authoress, more thorough examination of the reception of the Barclay work and identification of the circles of intellectuals interested in it, could reveal a relatively wide range of impact of his political thought among the Polish 'szlachta' and the role it could have played in the development of reformational ideas and attitudes.
The article discusses the relationship between the 'Penitential Songs' by Olbrycht Karmanowski and 'Decima of Penitential Songs' by Waclaw Potocki. The authoress proposes a thesis of direct influence of Karmanowski's cycle on Potocki's writings. The probable reason for this relation is the same literary genre - penitential elegy. Both writers were also members of the Arian Church. The reminiscences present in the 'Decima' differ in faithfulness to the poems by Karmanowski. Direct connections of both cycles are mostly certified by four passages of the 'Decima' which are so close to the text of the 'Penitential Songs' that could be regarded as direct citations. Apart from those, there are also other minor traces of existence of Karmanowski's poetry in the 'Decima', including: realisation of the same images and themes, often derived from the Bible, lexical convergences, identical rhyme pairs. Although all Potocki's borrowings bear signs of poetical intervention, nonetheless the poems by Karmanowski could be indicated as a pattern source of the 'Decima of Penitential Songs'.
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