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Norwid, Cyprian Kamil

Born Sept. 24, 1821, in Las-kowo-Gluchy, near Warsaw; died May 23, 1883, in Paris. Polish writer.

Norwid studied in a Gymnasium and art schools from 1831 to 1840. In 1842 he went abroad, where he became acquainted with A. Mickiewicz, J. Słowacki, F. Chopin, Z. Krasiński, and A. I. Herzen. He traveled extensively and endured great poverty; from 1877 he lived in an asylum. Norwid published very little of his poetry and prose during his lifetime, and many works have been lost. His main themes are the history of civilization, the individual, Christianity and humanitarianism, and the relation of art to life. In his poetry, romantic exuberance and an emotional approach to life were tempered by philosophic generalization, resulting in an ironic perception and evaluation of life’s contradictions. Among his best works are the poetic cycle Vade mecum (1865–66), the philosophical poem A Dorio ad Phrygium (1871), and the tragedies Behind the Scenes (1865–66), Cleopatra (1870–72), and The Society Lady’s Ring (1872).

WORKS

Dzieła zebrane, vols. 1–2. Warsaw, 1966.
Pisma wszystkie, vols. 1–11. Warsaw, 1970–71.
In Russian translation:
Stikhotvoreniia. Moscow, 1972.

REFERENCES

Lipatova, A. V. “Ts. K. Norvid.” In Istoriia pol’skoi literatury, vol. 1. Moscow, 1968.
Wyka, K. C. Norvid. Krakow, 1948.
Borowy, W. O Norwidzie. Warsaw, 1960.
Nowe studia o Norwidzie. Warsaw, 1961.
Cyprian Norwid: W 150–lecie urodzin. Warsaw, 1973.

A. V. LIPATOV

References in periodicals archive

Cyprian Norwid, Vade-mecum Za Wstep (Ogolniki) Gdy, z wiosna zycia duch Artysta Poi sie jej tchem jak motyle, Wolno mu mowic tylko tyle: "Ziemia jest kragla--jest kulista!" Lecz gdy pozniejszych chlodow dreszcze Drzewem wzrusza--i kwiatki zleca-- Wtedy dodawac trzeba jeszcze: "U biegunow--splaszczona nieco ..." Ponad wszystkie wasze uroki-- Ty!

Cyprian Norwid. Vade-mecum, edited by Jozef Fert (2nd corrected and enlarged edition).

Translating Cyprian Kamil Norwid's "Generalities": a case study of cooperation

The Polish poet Cyprian Norwid (1921-1883) looked like a character out of Dostoyevsky.

Cyprian Norwid. Poems

And yet it met with a lukewarm initial reception: Juliusz Stowacki and Cyprian Norwid both sneered at it (219-20).

Roman Koropeckyj. Adam Mickiewicz: The Life of a Romantic

Whereas numerous romantic or even postromantic poets idealized the village and damned the city (for example, Cyprian Norwid: "Miasto -- to przedsien piekielnej zatraty," "The city is the porch to hellish perdition" [Norwid, 134]), and even Baudelaire seems to oscillate between "lyrical celebrations and vehement denunciations" (Sharpe/Wallock, 157), by the beginning of the next century, life in a town or a metropolis was accepted as nearly as much a "natural" mode of existence as life in the country.

THE CITY IN MODERN POLISH AND HUNGARIAN POETRY

Studia i szkice aksjologiczno-literackie (Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL, 2006, 231); it is significantly different from the one presented in Pisma wszystkie edited by Juliusz Wiktor Gomulicki (Cyprian Norwid, vol.

Death as the unread writing in the poetry of Cyprian Kamil Norwid

A preface to one of his art exhibits and a tribute to a longtime literary friend, the writer Cyprian Norwid, complete this well-rounded portrait.

Wyrwane strony

For Danuta Borchardt I provided "Ten Commandments for the Translation of the Works of Cyprian Norwid" [14] devised to maintain the highest possible fidelity toward his poems.

Citation from Wybbr glosbw o twbrczosci pisarskiej Cypriana Norwida (Selection of Commentaries about Cyprian Norwid's Writing), selected by J.

A strange poet: a commentary on Cyprian Norwid's verse