W stronę modernistycznego opus vitae. Drogi twórcze Tymoteusza Karpowicza i Ezry Pounda

Abstract

The article aims to present the biographies of two representatives of literary modernism in Polishand Anglo-American poetry: Tymoteusz Karpowicz and Ezra Pound. Drafting the circumstances in which their lifeworks rose (ie. Słoje zadrzewne and The Pisan Cantos) the author points out the possible concurrences of Polish postwar avant-guarde poetry and high modernism in Anglo-American poetry. Looking at the autobiographical aspect in the chosen fragments of these two works we can notice few important junctions. Słoje zadrzewne and The Pisan Cantos carry a stigma of the last will – they are thought to be a recapitulation of the poets’ output. These volumes of poetry are the examples of unrealized dream about the creation of a modernist “Book”. The literary evolution of two poets is sketched in this text, what inspires to continue the considerations about indirect recurrences between the poetry of Karpowicz and Pound.

Keywords

• Ezra Pound
• Polish postwar poetry
• modernism
• Tymoteusz Karpowicz
• high modernism
• avant-guarde