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Tytuł: Poezje zebrane
Inne tytuły: Collected Poems
Autorzy: Zahorska, Anna
Redaktor(rzy): Wydrycka, Anna
Słowa kluczowe: poezje
Seria Przełomy/Pogranicza
Data wydania: 2016
Data dodania: 11-maj-2017
Wydawca: Wydział Filologiczny Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku, Katedra Badań Filologicznych "Wschód - Zachód"
Wydawnictwo PRYMAT
Seria: Przełomy/Pogranicza: Studia Literackie;24
Studia o romantyzmie;1
Abstrakt: The tome is comprised of a collection of poems by a forgotten, yet a deserving of attention poet Anna Zahorska, who used the pseudonym Savitri during her Young Poland creative period. A reprint of three volumes of her poetry (War songs [Pieśni walki] 1908, Poetries [Poezje] 1908, To the days of resurrection [Dniom zmartwychwstania] 1921) and of various unrelated works (1902–1939) is preceded by a voluminous preface, which introduces the biography of the author and outlines the directions of her works. Anna (Hanna) Zahorska of Elzenberg was born in 1882, in the Eastern borderlands, in Vitebsk or Mogilev. Her father was Gustaw Elzenberg, a bank official, while her mother Bronisława of Kowalewscy family was a landowner. The poet was a paternal cousin of a philosopher Henryk Elzenberg. She was also related to Bolesław Leśmian and Antoni Lange. She had two sisters: Zofia and Ludwika and a brother Eugeniusz, a legion captain awarded with Virtuti Militari, who died in the war in 1920. Zahorska graduated from an all-girls boarding school in Moscow, a city where she later worked and took an active part in the local Polish Socialist Party. She debuted in 1902 in a literary weekly “Biesiada Literacka”. After coming to Warsaw, she joined the revolution in 1905, for which she was thrown into Pawiak Prison. While locked up, she wrote poems which were later published in the press and later in a tome called War songs (Pieśni walki). Following her release, she moved to Kraków. At that point, she undertook intensive literary work: she wrote poems, articles, reviews, prose and dramas. She published a tome named Poetries (Poezje), which received critical acclaim. She studied at the Jagiellonian University. She married Eugeniusz Zahorski, a Polish Socialist Party member, an independence activist and a poet, later also a known chess player. She was an active proponent of Poland’s independence, she travelled around the area of the Russian annexation and Russia itself, spreading Polish culture, agitating, forming socialism and independence circles. However, in time, her ties to the Polish Socialist Party began to gradually weaken, she started considering socialism and marxism as fake ideologies, although she never lost her social sensitivity. Zahorska converted back to Catholicism, which greatly affected her life and works. She yet again lived through the war and revolution, this time in Russia. She published her works in the Polish press in Moscow and Petersburg. Following her return to Vilnius Land, she became one of the founders of the socalled Borderlands Guard (Straż Kresowa). She visited various Lithuanian towns and wrote reports on the situation of the local populace. During the war in 1920, she attempted to sneak past the frontlines in a disguise, resulting in her arrest and a death sentence, which she managed to run away from. She settled down in Warsaw with her family and once again committed herself towards intensive literary and social work. As a pious catholic convert, she persistently called for the spiritual dimension in literature. She gave up her Young Poland’s period pseudonym, from then on, she signed her works with the full name. She published novels built on the scheme of the fall, the return to the faith, the expiation. Their plot is usually set on the contemporary Polish-Russian frontier (The Refugees [Uchodźcy], A wired neighbourhood [Odrutowana okolica], Poisons [Trucizny]). She also wrote numerous religious poems published in various journals which have been reprinted in this tome. She became associated with the Salesian Publishing House (Wydawnictwo Salezjańskie), where she mainly released biographical novels about saints, presenting them in both long and short texts. She wrote dramatic scenarios for children and the youth. She was also widely engaged in literature and film criticism. She wrote the last remaining work - a narrative poem Litka - after her daughter’s death, who was executed at the beginning of the November of 1939 by Germans. During the occupation, she organised literary meetings. She joined the Union of Armed Struggle (Związek Walki Zbrojnej), and later, its successor, the Home Army (Armia Krajowa). She was arrested in May, 1942 and once more, after 36 years, was imprisoned in Pawiak, where she went through a severe interrogation. Later, taken to Oświęcim, tortured and badly sick, she died in November, 1942. Soon, during the Warsaw Uprising, her two daughters lost their lives, leaving just the two sons alive after the war. Zahorska’s poetry has a noticeable evolutionary line. Her early works express a youthful rebellion, they dazzle with eroticism, exhibit a strong individualism and independence, especially female. Gradually, though, the idea of sacrifice for the society, the nation, another person, while outlined in the first tome, becomes justified religiously later on. The war also imposes the theme, along with the motifs of fighting and suffering. In addition, her poems reveal the importance of maternity. In the later period, poetic prayers start to appear. The sacral dimension of reality becomes immensely crucial. At the same time, the poetics become simpler, the modernist phraseology phases out, even though the poet still employs symbolism, often associated with colour. The entirety of her creations is patronized by Juliusz Słowacki, whose works were her most significant inspiration. The publication of the poetic works is closed by the editor’s note, which indicates the basis of the reprint and specifies chosen first prints.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11320/5482
ISBN: 978-83-7657-233-8
Typ Dokumentu: Book
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