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Kalendárová poézia Juraja Palkoviča a Rudo Brtáň
Authors: Martin Braxatoris
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The goal of the paper is to explore the forms of calendar poetry written by Juraj Palkovič
(1769 – 1850) and to assess the reliability of the related research conclusions drawn
by Rudo Brtáň (1907 – 1998). The starting point is Palkovič´s calendar edition Větší
a zvláštnější nový i starý kalendář/A bigger and more interesting new and old calendar, the
individual editions of which had more or less permanent poetic sections in it: in the
calendar part so-called poems under the months, in the weather lore poems related to
the season and in the insert of the calendar so-called humorous „fairy-tales“. Although
the texts in question were analyzed by several researchers, in particular by Rudo Brtáň,
the existing findings and conclusions require at least verification, further expansion
or, if necessary, corrections. The paper focuses on the thematic and motivic, rhetoric
and poetic and prosodic aspects of the original texts and offers complex processing of
them in the scope of all the editions of the calendar (1805 – 1848). From the viewpoint
of prosody, poetology and textology (the issue of the author attribution) the paper pays
attention to classicisism or roccoco style poems about four seasons. The poems under
the months are used to study the development of Palkovič´s creative personality, it
takes notice of the dynamics of the themes, the rhetoric, poetic and prosodic aspects.
The literary motifs monitored throughout Palkovič´s calendar poetry include the
motif of a woman and the motif of alcohol. The conclusions show that the results of
Brtáň´s research in this area are still valuable, although rather selectively. They are
invaluable for contemporary researchers when trying to orient themselves in the wide
resource base, however, it shows that the original texts require new complex reading,
which raises a number of questions still unanswere