Penczo Sławejkow – Tadeusz Miciński: paralele

Abstract

The author juxtaposes the personalities and works of two modernist poets: Tadeusz Miciński and Penczo Slaveykov. They met in Leipzig in the late1895. Years later, working as a war correspondent during his stay in the Balkans (1913), Miciński wrote several articles about Bulgaria and, separately, about Slaveykov (“Poet of the Balkans”). The articles included Micinski’s recollections of his Bulgarian colleague, his relationship with Mara Belcheva, as well as a juxtaposition of the poetry of both writers, with emphasis on their similarities and diff erences. The subject of the juxtaposition here is Slaveykov’s Dream of Happiness and Micinski’s In the Darkness of Stars. Unlike Slaveykov, Miciński uses mythological and biblical staff age. In his poetry, we find a number of characters from Greek, Scandinavian, Slavic, and other mythologies. He also makes signifi cant use of symbolism. There are not many autobiographical references in the Polish poet’s lyric verse. Slaveykov in Dream of Happiness is an impressionist, operating with mood and contemplation; Miciński opts for dynamics and sound.