Zygmunta Glogera "Rok polski w życiu, twórczości i pieśni"

Abstract

The article focuses on Gloger’s book: Rok polski w życiu, tradycji i pieśni (The Polish Year in Life, Traditions and Songs). It was published in 1900 in the Warsaw publishing house of Jan Fiszer. It is – as noted by the researcher – a literary and ethnographic anthology, where the ambitions went in the direction of a coherent documentation of Polish annual rites, rather than showing the presence and importance of the theme of the four seasons in Polish literature. The ethnographic content was presented by the writer in a simple form, and the literary materials, which sometimes brought important testimonies of annual traditions, also helped to give the book the character of popular literature.