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In his historical novel 'An Old Tale' Józef Ignacy Kraszewski compiles an intriguing literary herbarium. Next to a number of quite unremarkable plants his collection includes herbs that can be used to summon magic powers. Among the latter we can find the lovege in all its emblematic glory. His miraculous 'hortus siccus' displays a herb which is believed to bring back the dead to life. Kraszewski selects...
Critics often called Jacek Dehnel's (born 1980) verse 'classical' or 'neoclassical'. For some commentators his disciplined writing is itself sufficient for treating him as a poet indebted to the traditions of classicism and the Enlightenment. This type of reasoning seems to be based on the assumption that form is in a way independent of the poetic content. This article treats the choice of genre conventions...
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