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Lwowski debiut Tomasza Augusta Olizarowskiego

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Tomasz August Olizarowski, born on March 10, 1811 in Wojsławice, in Galicia, still be- longs to the group of the unknown and unjustly forgotten poets and playwrights. One hundred and thirty five years have passed since his death, and so far there has been neither a critical edition of his rich literary output, nor a monograph devoted to him. Most of his texts remain in manuscripts collected at the Polish Library in Paris and at the Library of Kórnik. The latter holds among its collections the first volume of his Psalms, most probably published by the poet in L’viv in 1832, compared by an unknown 1833 reviewer to the works of Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter) and even to J.W. Goethe’s. Only some of the L’viv poems — and in a modified form - were included in the third volume of Dzieła published in Wrocław in 1852. The article discusses Olizarowski’s Psalms and becomes also an opportunity to recollect the puzzling whereabouts of the poet.