- Leopold Staff
Infobox Writer
name = Leopold Staff
caption =
birthname = Leopold Staff
birthdate = birth date|1878|11|14|mf=y,
birthplace =Lviv .
deathdate = death date and age|1957|5|31|1878|11|14|mf=y,
deathplace =Skarżysko-Kamienna .
occupation = Poet.
influences =Emanuel Swedenborg ,Adam Mickiewicz ,Charles Leconte de Lisle ,Antoni Lange
influenced =Julian Tuwim ,Tadeusz Różewicz ,Czesław Miłosz ,Kazimierz Wierzyński ,Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz ,Jan Lechoń Leopold Staff (
November 14 ,1878 –May 31 ,1957 ) was aPolish poet and one of the greatest artists of European modernism honored two times byhonorary degrees ("honoris causa"). He was also nominated for theNobel Prize in Literature . Representative ofclassicism and symbolism in the poetry ofYoung Poland , an author of many philosophical poems strong influenced by the idea of theÜbermensch , the ideas of the Franciscan order, and paradoxes ofChristianity .He was born in
Lviv (Lemberg),Austria-Hungary and died inSkarżysko-Kamienna . Staff was highly influential in the literary life ofJulian Tuwim , one of Poland's most renowned poets.Staff's writing can be divided into three periods:
Young Poland ,Interwar period and postwar Poland.In the early
XX century Staff became probably the most famuous and influential Polish poet. He called his popularity as a "retiring, soft glory". In 1950s he faced toblank verse close up toavant-garde . He was also the main guru for Polish group of experimental poets named "Skamander ".Some of his poetry includes The Bridge, Foundations, and Three Towns.
Further reading
* Mortkowicz-Olczakowa, Hanna (1961). "Bunt wspomnień." Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy.
ee also
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Young Poland
*Skamander
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