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ON KRAKOW’S PREROMANTICISM

The first parts of the article contain an overview of historical-literary and comparative research and a discussion on the theory of preromanticism in the context of the aesthetics of literature and the literary process. The author advocates understanding preromanticism as a family of literary aesthetics situated within the sentimental and organicist image of the world – aesthetics such as Youngism, Gothicism, Osianism, or Sternism, in which the tendencies preparing for the advent of romanticism were manifested. Preromanticism strongly marked the literary process of the post-Stanislaus Enlightenment, and above all, the three literary trends of that time: the Puławy, Legionary and Napoleonic trend, as well as that of national idyll. In the Enlightenment literature of the Krakow region, these three trends formed an extremely valuable synthesis thanks to the cultural mission of Archbishop Jan Paweł Woronicz, military poetry of the Duchy of Warsaw and the practice of idyllic poetry which found its expression in the works of Wincenty Reklewski and the Brodziński brothers. Nevertheless, the range of preromantic phenomena in Krakow’s literature is far richer. It was gradually enriched by three more milieus of the Krakow Enlightenment: that of Jacek Idzi Przybylski (the development of idyllic aesthetics, a turn towards Greek antiquity, the literary ideas of Marcin Fijałkowski, The spirit of the book of nature by Andrzej Trzciński), through the milieu of Józef Sygiert (a turn towards English preromanticism, inspired by Burza and Napór (Sturm und Drang), Tyritian tradition, and legendary in the works of Sygiert and Franciszek Wężyk), and finally through the milieu of the Brodziński brothers – poets of the soldiers’ life, regional colour, and national idyll.