Rozważania na marginesie monografii życia i twórczości Aleksandra Grozy. O poematach Melancholia i Kniaźnin

Abstract

The article compares two poems by Aleksander Groza, a representative of the “Ukrainian school” of Polish Romanticism, which has not yet been the subject of a thorough literary analysis. The first poem, Melancholia. The Mad Poet, is Groz’s debut publication that appeared in the Noworocznik litewski for the year 1831. The second one, Kniaźnin, was included in the first volume of his poetry collection (Poezje, Wilno 1836). The research for Aleksander Groza’s monograph has revealed some interesting interpretative and biographical facts related to these texts. Drawing from the methodology of comparative studies, biography, and intertextual analysis, the author succeeded in establishing the intertextual dependencies and discovered the sources of the poet’s inspiration from German (J.W. Goethe), native Lithuanian (A. Mickiewicz), and local Ukrainian (J.M. Zaleski, A. Malczewski, M. Maksymowicz) literary circles.