Cyprian Kamil Norwid

The two -year period of Warsaw's poetic activity of Norwid (The poet lived in the years 1821 – 1883) brought him the highest recognition of the critics valued at that time. His earliest poems were distinguished in a fairly original tone, Villages contrasted with the city often returned in them, Its inhabitants to be an example of life consistent with nature, moral purity, religiosity, diligence. Already then Norwid assigned poetry very important functions, he preached the need to commit her in the most painful, The most difficult matters of the nation and society.

W 1849 the year Norwid came to Paris, Then the most important began, A mature period in his work. Soon he announced the poem Swivelon talking about the moral problems of the nation in captivity and appeared Promethidion. A thing in two dialogues with an epilogue, where the poet has already attacked the romantic concept of art growing from inspiration. Writing is to be, like any creative act, creative, directly related to experience, real life:

And hence the greatest simple people poet,
What is humming with brown soils (…)
And hence the greatest historian,
Who dictated from a horse – not at the office –
And Michał-Anioł, what the Kuł himself in marble.

There are many reasons for the reluctant acceptance of Norwid's contemporary writing. This is the most important of them, that this creativity went far beyond the artistic trends that were dominant at that time, Ways to express feelings and vision of the world. Norwid belonged to the so -called second generation of romantics. He was undoubtedly a continuator of the romantic lyric model, but at the same time he has already announced the appearance of a new current – positivism, He has also become a precursor of innovative concepts of the poetic language.