Published: 2018-08-161

Dialogues of a Lady with a Bachelor. On the Love Poetry on the Basis of Selected Works of Antonina Niemiryczowa

Sylwia Kawska

Abstract

This article treats selected love poems by the forgotten Polish poetess from the 18th century, Antonina Niemiryczowa. From a syncretic, loosely composed and thematically diverse selection of poems called Wiersze polskie the author chooses a group of love poems, mainly epigrams, presenting conversations of a lady with a bachelor. These works are a rare example of woman writing in the Old Polish literature (especially erotic one), at the same time being testimony to the turn of the century and a change in the literary trends in Polish poetry, a move from the Baroque to the Enlightment’s Rococo. The article highlights the major influences of the French Rococo (intimacy, a flirt and a game of feelings, court conventions) and the baroque erotic metaphor, a transformation of mainly Petrarchan conventions (love as sweet enslavement, the feeling as a flame or a conceptive opposition of fire and ice).

Keywords:

Antonina Niemiryczowa, women’s writing, Rococo, Baroque, erotic poem

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Kawska, S. (2018). Dialogues of a Lady with a Bachelor. On the Love Poetry on the Basis of Selected Works of Antonina Niemiryczowa. Prace Literaturoznawcze, (5). Retrieved from https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/pl/article/view/378

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