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Post by pieter on Jul 31, 2006 12:23:02 GMT -7
Young Poland movemend
Diverse group of early 20th-century Neoromantic writers brought together in reaction against Naturalism and Positivism. Inspired by Polish Romantic writers and also by contemporary western European trends such as Symbolism, they sought to revive the unfettered expression of feeling and imagination in Polish literature and to extend this reawakening to all the Polish arts. Centred in Kraków, the movement was pioneered by the poet Antoni Lange and by the editor and critic Zenon Przesmycki (“Miriam”), an early Polish modernist.
The most prominent figure of the Young Poland movement was the painter and dramatist Stanislaw Wyspianski, whose play Wesele (1901; The Wedding, filmed 1973), a masterpiece of evocative allusion, is written in the stylized verse of the traditional puppet theatre. Other Young Poland movement writers included the peasant poet Jan Kasprowicz, who established a tonic poetic metre that became the characteristic rhythm of modern Polish poetry, and the novelists Stefan Zeromski, Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont, and Karol Irzykowski.
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Post by pieter on Jul 31, 2006 12:30:41 GMT -7
Antoni Langeborn c. 1861, Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now in Poland] died March 17, 1929, Warsaw Polish poet, literary critic, and translator who was a pioneer of the Young Poland movement. Lange studied linguistics, philosophy, and literature in Paris (1886–90), and shortly after his return to Warsaw he became one of the leading personalities in literary circles. His intellectual curiosity was unlimited. --------------- Zenon Przesmyckipl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenon_Przesmycki--------------- Stanislaw Wyspianskiborn January 15, 1869, Kraków, Poland died November 28, 1907, Kraków Polish dramatist and painter, a leading artist of the early 20th-century period who was noted literarily for his aspiration to a uniquely Polish national theatre. He was a prominent member of the Young Poland movement. Wyspianski's early education included classical literature and fine arts. Source: www.britannica.com/eb/article-9078076
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Post by pieter on Jul 31, 2006 12:40:10 GMT -7
Jan Kasprowicz
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jan Kasprowicz (born December 12, 1860 in Szymborz, Poland - died August 1, 1926 in Poronin) was a poet, playwright, critic and translator; a foremost representative of Young Poland.
Life
Kasprowicz was born in the town of Szymborz, near Inowroclaw, to an illiterate peasant family. From 1870 he studied in Prussian gymnasiums in Inowroclaw, Poznañ, Opole, Raciborz, and in 1884 graduated from Mary Magdalen Gymnasium in Poznañ. He studied philosophy and literature in German universities in Leipzig and Wroclaw. During his studies he began having articles and poetry published, working with various Polish magazines. For his activities in socialist circles he was twice arrested by Prussian police and spent half a year in prison.
After his release from prison, at the age of 28 Kasprowicz moved to Lwów, where he spent the next 35 years of his life. He worked as a journalist and critic of literature and theatre, working for two years in the editorial department of the newspaper, the Polish Courier (Kurier Polski) and for the following four years (1902-1906) editorializing for the newspaper, the Polish Word (Slowo Polskie). At the same time, with unusual productivity, Kasprowicz wrote and had published his own works and poetry, to critical acclaim.
In 1904 he received a doctorate from Lwów University for his treatise, the Lyrics of Teofil Lenartowicz (Liryka Teofila Lenartowicza). In 1909 at Lwów University he became the head of the Department of Comparative Literature, a department founded for him to run.
Jan Kasprowicz was extensively self-taught, learning to mastery the classic Latin and Greek languages, as well as French and English. Amongst his works are critically acclaimed translations of various great literary works:
- Greek (Aeschylus, Euripides)
- English (Shakespeare, Marlowe, Lord Byron, Shelley, Keats, Tagore, Swinburne, Wilde, among others)
- German (Goethe, Schiller)
- French (Vauvenargues, Bertrand, Rimbaud, Maeterlinck)
- Italian (d'Annunzio)
- Norwegian (Ibsen)
- Dutch (Heijermans)
A titan of productivity, nature gifted Kasprowicz with good health and a strong constitution. Stanislaw Lem wrote of him: "He had in his bearing the originality of a gypsy and the hustle of a journalist, which, over time, allowed him to earn the money he needed, gave him the good humour of a friend, and - even then - a professorial gravity." He was - with a notable group of friends - a frequent guest at the pubs and wineries of Lwów, especially the famous winery and wine bar of Stadtmueller still present at the market, number 34.
His first marriage — to Teodozja Szymañska in 1886 — dissolved after a few months. In 1893 he married Jadwiga Gasowska. In 1899 she dramatically left him and their daughters for the writer Stanislaw Przybyszewski. In 1911, he was married again, this time to the much younger Maria Bunin, a Russian girl whom he met on a train from Rome to Naples while on one of his artistic travels. She was the daughter of the Tsarist general, Victor Bunin.
In the years 1921-1922 he was a rector of Jan Kazimierz University.
In the last twenty years of his life, Kasprowicz more and more frequently visited the Tatra Mountains. In 1923 he permanently settled in the villa, "Harenda," between Poronin and Zakopane, where he died on August 1, 1926.
Works
- (1889) Poezje
- (1890) Chrystus
- (1891) Z chlopskiego zagonu
- (1894) Anima lachrymans i inne nowe poezje
- (1895) Milosc
- (1898) Krzak dzikiej rózy
- (1901) Ginscemu swiatu
- (1902) Salve Regina
- (1908) Ballada o sloneczniku
- (1911) Chwile
- (1916) Ksiega ubogich
- (1921) Hymny
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Post by pieter on Jul 31, 2006 13:03:31 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jan 13, 2007 21:12:15 GMT -7
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