Published: 2018-09-291

The Reception of Jan Brzechwa’s poetry for adults

Jowita Podwysocka-Modrzejewska

Abstract

Jan Brzechwa, best-known as a popular children’s writer, has quite a rich literary output of adult stories. The poet started his literary career during the interwar years. It was during that specific period that he wrote his first books of poetry: Oblicza zmyślone (1926), Talizmany (1929), Trzeci krąg (1932), Piołun i obłok (1935). Part of his previously published poems were issued again in the 1950s in three further editions of The Selected Poems and again as Liryka mego życia (The Lyric Poetry of My Life), the latter being released posthumously. Besides previously published poems, it included ones which had not been released before. The author of the article on The Reception of Jan Brzechwa’s poetry for adults presents reception of his poetry from the two abovementioned collections through literary criticism. She says that Brzechwa’s poetry has been given either positive and negative feedback, though. This does not change the fact that Brzechwa’s early oeuvre let us scrutinize how his writing techniques developed and evolved throughout his career as a poet.

Keywords:

lyrical poetry, literary criticism, Polish poetry, Polish literature in the interwar years

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Podwysocka-Modrzejewska, J. (2018). The Reception of Jan Brzechwa’s poetry for adults. Prace Literaturoznawcze, (3). Retrieved from https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/pl/article/view/1154

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