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Krasicki, Ignacy

▪ Polish poet
born February 3, 1735, Dubiecko, Poland
died March 14, 1801, Berlin, Germany
 a major Polish poet, satirist, and prose writer of the Enlightenment.

      Born to an aristocratic but impoverished family, Krasicki was educated at the Warsaw Catholic Seminary and became bishop of Warmia (Ermeland) at age 32. He served as one of the closest cultural counselors to King Stanisław II August Poniatowski; in 1795 he was named archbishop of Gniezno.

      Krasicki's satires—the first collection was entitled simply Satyry (1779; “Satires”)—concentrate on vices such as drunkenness and greediness. In “Pijaństwo” (“Drunkenness”), Krasicki portrays the gradual process of alcohol addiction. His mock-heroic poems include Monachomachia (1778; “War of Monks”), a satirical attack on ignorant and dissolute monks.

      Krasicki also introduced the modern novel to Poland with Mikołaja Doświadczyńskiego przypadki (1776; The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom). Influenced by the works of Daniel Defoe (Defoe, Daniel), Jonathan Swift (Swift, Jonathan), and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Rousseau, Jean-Jacques), it is written in the form of a diary and consists of three sections, the second of which introduces an imaginary island whose inhabitants live an ideally simple life.

      Krasicki was scholarly, skeptical, and critical but fundamentally optimistic and never cynical. The fables in Bajki i przypowieści (1779) and Bajki nowe (1803) are among his best work. Typical of these fables is the four-line “The Lamb and the Wolves,” which is the story of an encounter between three powerful predators and a weak little lamb. When the lamb asks the reason for the predators' attack, they respond: “You're tasty, weak, and in the woods!” and eat it up “in one bite.” Polish readers of that time could read its universal message (“Whoever seeks to conquer will find an excuse”) as a concrete example of the partition of their country between Russia, Prussia, and Austria. Most of the fables in these two volumes appear in Polish Fables (1997). They are told in concise, unambiguous language and reflect the author's skepticism about human nature, tempered by sympathetic understanding.

Additional Reading
David J. Welsh, Ignacy Krasicki (1969).

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Источник: Krasicki, Ignacy

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