Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer

Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer

Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer (February 12, 1865January 18, 1940) was a Polish poet, novelist, playwright, journalist and writer. He was a member of the Young Poland movement.

Life

Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer was born in Ludźmierz in Podhale near the Tatra Mountains, then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire now in Poland, and died in Warsaw. His older half-brother was the painter Włodzimierz Tetmajer. Przerwa-Tetmajer studied classics and philosophy at the Jagiellonian University in 1884-1889. He then became a journalist at "Kurier Polski", and lived both in the Tatras and in Kraków (Cracow). After World War I he moved to Warsaw to serve as president of the Society of Writers and Journalists. In 1934 he was made honorary member of the Polish Academy of Literature.

Przerwa-Tetmajer suffered from a mental illness in the latter years of his life, which prevented him from writing. He was living in a hospice in 1940 when the Nazis evicted all the occupants. He was left homeless and died shortly afterwards in a Warsaw hospital.

Work

Przerwa Tetmajer wrote seven collections of poetry before World War I. He is particularly well known for his works about the Tatras. At least one of his poems, "Kriváň, High Kriváň!" ("Krywaniu, Krywaniu wysoki!") [ cite journal|title=Jak Jasiek z Ustupu, Hanusia od Królów i Marta Uherczykówna z Liptowa śpiewali w jedno słoneczne rano ku sobie|journal=Na skalnym Podhalu|date=1903|first=Kazimierz|last=Przerwa-Tetmajer|coauthors=|volume=|issue=|pages=|id= |url=|format=|accessdate= ] is now often taken for an authentic folk song. [cite book | last = Długołęcka | first = Lidia | authorlink = | coauthors = Maciej Pinkwart | title = Muzyka i Tatry | publisher = | date = 1992 | location = | pages = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = ] According to Barry Keane from the "Warsaw Voice":

Przerwa Tetmajer was primarily a lyrical poet who articulated the birth pangs of modernism at the turn of the century, but he will be best remembered for his erotic verse and for poems evoking his beloved Tatra mountains. He broke with age-old subtleties and niceties common to amorous poetry and wrote on love in frank and provocative terms. The poet simultaneously attracted huge praise from legions of readers and loud accusations of depravity from other quarters... at the close of the 19th century.Fact|date=March 2008

References

ee also

* [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9071840/Kazimierz-Tetmajer About K. Przerwa-Tetmajer in Encyclopedia Britannica]
* [http://www.mission.net/poland/warsaw/literature/poems/cradle.htm Sample poem: "A Cradle Wind"] , translated by Walter Whipple
* Polish literature
* Young Poland


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