This book is the practical implementation of the postulate to systemise information on authors, especially of the former Eastern Borderlands of Rzeczpospolita, who have long been beyond the scope of literary science. The goal behind this monographic work is the filling of an empty space in the literary history of the Polish Enlightenment with a name of another sentimentalist. Known to hardly anyone, this poet from the remote Belarusian hinterland has now a chance to be placed in the context of Karpiński, Kniaźnin, Brodziński, and Kropiński; entering into parallels with the greatest. For, in the course of history, the very notions of understanding and concept of the literary work have changed. This double change should result in a change of rules and criteria of interpretation, or at least enforce their verification.
Jan Onoszko, who D. Kukuć devoted her book to, is among artists to be affected by those...
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