Vade-mecum in relations to the English-written poetry cycles of the second half of the XIX century

Abstract

The aim of the study is to initiate the considerations over the systemic ways of Vade- -mecum’s reading that at the same time may determine the new starting point to rearrange the comparative reflection on the cycle and its precursorship. Possibilities of reading as such seem to be given by so called synthetic comparatistics, and in that spirit there is being coinstuted the basic line of compilating and comparing – Vade-mecum with Alfred Tennyson’s In Memoriam, Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass as well as Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Poems. The result of confronting of those perspectives have been expressed in specific conclusions, among others – the strong cycle’s semanticising tendency in Norwid’s, Tennyson’s, Whitman’s and Hopkins’s cases and, after all, the experiments in the area of maintaining and breaking the continuity of cycle’s diegesis – clearly outlined within the Norwid’s and Whitman’s cycles. Studying as well as comparing the structural aspects of cycles of Norwid, Tennyson, Whitman and Hopkins may lead to the cautious fixing the new point zero of research – literary comparatistics, which could be named the conditional and analytical ones.