Poetry as salvation. The pictures of Polish poetry of the second half of the twentieth century

The collection of literary and critical works of one of the most influential Polish critics of the second half of the 20th century Yana Blonsky included his texts of different years-from the essay written in 1949 about the first poetic collection of Tadeusz Ruzhevich to the essays published in the Polish press of the early 2000s. However, this book should not expect a systematic presentation of a relatively recent history of Polish literature. Rather, the reader is offered a very personal, sometimes subjective, in some ways an addicted look at the poetry, which was primarily for Blonsky, first of all, the “space of love”.
What, according to Blonsky, determines the value of a poetic text? What is the calling of verbal art after all the disasters of the 20th century? Should it focus exclusively on a “urgent problem” or its task is to discover a metaphysical horizon? Can a classic tradition coexist with an artistic breakthrough, an experiment in the field of language and form? Jan Blonsky does not give an unambiguous answer, but calls the reader to the interlocutors