O zapomnianej spuściźnie Jerzego Wyszomirskiego

Abstract

The article reviews the literary output of Jerzy Wyszomirski, who was a poet, a literary critic and a journalist not widely known nowadays but who was associated with Vilnius in the inter-war period. His collections of poems entitled Całopalenie (1923) and Niewczesne (1930) indicate a direction of the poetic development from debutante references to the poetics of Young Poland and the Skamander group to an attempt at original themes and artistic solutions, with the simultaneous inclusion of regional motifs. Wyszomirski’s literary journalism testifies to the author’s acquaintance with the issues of most recent Polish poetry of the groups such as “Kwadryga”, "Żagary” or local authors. Moreover, it is an example of unorthodox, frequently controversial judgements of current opinions. An important foundation of Wyszomirski’s critical and literary output were also publications about Russian literature and topics on current social and sociological phenomena.