The basis of the reflections contained in the article is a book by Arkadiusz Bagłajewski titled Obecność romantyzmu [The presence of Romanticism]. The author of the book considers examples of the latest poetry, prose and drama in which the presence of the Romantic tradition is manifested. The method of intertextual analysis allows the author to show different signs of the reception of Romantic legacy. Obecność romantyzmu is a voice in the scholarly discussion about traces of past eras in literature after the 1989.