Publicystyka Tadeusza Micińskiego w latach Wielkiej Wojny

Abstract

The author of the article discusses the literary activity of Tadeusz Miciński from the First World War. It boils down largely to journalistic texts: articles, manifestos, open letters, travel reports from the front and from the life of Polish soldiers fighting on the eastern front. In 1917, the writer becomes an educational officer in the The Polish First Army Corps, commanded by general Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki, getting actively involved with his pen in the struggle for the “Polish cause.” Miciński is an unusual soldier: an educational officer, not avoiding the dangers of the front, a war correspondent, a reporter, and at the same time the tribune of the people and the conscience of the nation. A poet in the war, although now mainly a publicist, a social activist; finally, a spokesman for the Polish cause, with a decidedly anti-German orientation, pro-Russian out of necessity; he is a poet whose poetry takes on an ad hoc political, and journalistic character. Miciński’s journalistic writings are devoid of affairs which could seem too trivial to be discussed in the wartime. They have been subordinated to a well-defined purpose: raising awareness, teaching, influencing attitudes, comforting, warming up to battle, informing about the issues and events important for the Polish community, and doing it as far as possible intelligibly and to date.