Próba młodego krytyka. „Myśli o literaturze polskiej” Michała Grabowskiego

The paper devoted to Michał Grabowski’s Thoughts on Polish Literature (Myśli o literaturze polskiej, 1828) may be regarded as an invitation to a discussion about the factors that conditioned 19th-century critical thought. His attempt to produce an outline of Polish literature belongs to a specifi c cultural context and a singular moment of time while his manner of writing about Polish literature and poetry provides important information about that era. Grabowski’s critical activity encompassed the Age of Romanticism, so it may be concluded that the critic accompanied his era and reacted to its changes. The analysis of Grabowski’s critical method is part of a broader refl ection on criticism. His work may be treated as a mirror of his day and age