TY - JOUR N2 - In his lecture on Adam Asnyk’s poetry delivered in 1896 Jan Kasprowicz came up with the term endymionism to refer to a relatively small portion of the poet’s work characterized by a tone of extravagant egotism and narcissism. Exemplary for this extravaganza was, according to Kasprowicz, the poem ‘Endymion’. It belongs to a sequence of poems voicing the poet’s trauma after the suppression of the 1863–1864 January Uprising, and is closely connected with the ‘A Dream of the Tombs’, his most opaque and depressive poem. In the Polish literary tradition – from Słowacki’s calling Krasiński the Endymion of poetry, through Norwid and Faleński to a number of Young Poland’s poets (Rydel, Wyspiański, and Lange to mention but a few) – the figure of Endymion marked a situation of the poet being misunderstood or flouted by critics and readers. But with Asnyk’s ‘Endymion’, who, despite the appearance of a lonely dreamer is in fact a guardian of the tombs of heroes who fell in an unequal fight, this mythological figure acquired a new meaning. It became a symbol of loyalty and a noble idealism making no concessions to mundane pragmatism. In the following decades endymionism of that kind would often blend into Parnassianism, a poetic movement committed to the idea of art independent of all practical concerns and obligations. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/116946/PDF/2020-01-LITR-01-Okulicz-Kozaryn.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/116946 PY - 2020 IS - No 1 (358) EP - 16 DO - 10.24425/rl.2020.133836 KW - Polish literature of the late 19th century KW - Romantic and post-Romantic poetic styles KW - endymionism KW - Parnassianism KW - memory KW - Adam Asnyk (1838–1897) KW - Jan Kasprowicz (1860–1926) A1 - Okulicz-Kozaryn, Małgorzata PB - Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział w Krakowie Komisja Historycznoliteracka PB - Uniwersytet Jagielloński Wydział Polonistyki DA - 2020.10.05 T1 - Endymion and Endymionism SP - 3 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/116946 T2 - Ruch Literacki ER -