"TRANSFORMATIONS OF JAN BARSZCZEWSKI'S ROMANTIC HEROES. FROM AN IDEAL TO AN IDEAL"
The article “Transformations of Jan Barszczewski's romantic heroes. From an ideal to an ideal” covers the amplitude of feelings which the romantic heroes of the writer experience. It varies from joyful excitement to complete disenchantments which sometimes lead to hypertrophic changes in the heroes, their petrifaction, “woodenness” and premature death. There is an idea that the author's religiousness became genetic and was the inner ground of his creative work acquiring its exceptional resilience and power at a turning point, from enlightenment to romanticism. One of the key mythological poetic images of the writer was the image of an immortal soul. The romanticist Jan Barszczewski differentiated between spirit, soul and heart, but he exalted an ideal of the unity of the immanent and the transcendent, the finite and the infinite.