TY - JOUR
TI - Lyrical Astronomy of Leopold Staff
AU - Kołodziejczyk, Ewa
TI - Lyrical Astronomy of Leopold Staff
AB - The article showcases preliminary remarks and questions about the relation between scientific and religious worldview in Leopold Staff ’s poetry on the example of the astral symbolics appearing in it. It presents the question of the evolution of this author’s scientific language in connection with the transformation of the Interwar poets’ imagination under the influence of astrophysical knowledge gained as a result of important discoveries and cosmic observations. This attempt is an invitation to take a look at the history of the Polish poetry in the 20th century from the perspective of its transformations in connection to scientific, and especially, astrophysical progress. Staff ’s poetry dating from the Young Poland period to the post-World War II time seems to be a good lens, through which such transformations can be observed.
VL - 2022
IS - Volume 19 Issue 4
PY - 2022
SN - 2083-7658
C1 - 2353-1991
SP - 570
EP - 582
DO - 10.4467/23531991KK.22.044.17511
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/konteksty-kultury/article/liryczna-astronomia-leopolda-staffa
KW - astral themes in poetry
KW - science and religion
KW - poetry and astrophysics
KW - lyric poetry of Leopold Staff