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The literature of every age always reacts in some way to the literature of previous ages, either by rejecting and attempting to replace it or by imitating it or adapting certain elements from it. Such elements, whether of content or form, can enjoy quite long lives. Thus, even in modern Polish poetry, elements can be found which date back to proto-Slavic times. In such cases of course the motifs and phrases were originally passed down orally but later came into the written literature at some point and then became part of its poetic repertoire. The aim of this book is to trace such proto-Slavic elements in contemporary Polish poetry.
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