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W 2015 r. mija 150. rocznica urodzin jednego The year 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of one of Poland’s greatest poets of the late 19th and early 20th century – Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer. He came from a family of landowners and convinced patriots. He was a member of the intellectual elite of his time - his half-brother was the painter Włodzimierz Tetmajer and his cousin was Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński. Tetmajer was recognized as the voice of the Young Poland generation, which found in his poetry a reflection of the fears and anxieties of the end of the century (Koniec wieku XIX). The loss of faith in progress and in power of the man of the “age of steam and electricity” led him to seek refuge in art and subsequently in the wild nature of ...