Wacław Rolicz-Lieder : ill-timed and modern

The article presents two seemingly opposite categories that can be used to describe the poetry of Wacław Rolicz-Lieder (1866-1912): its "untimeliness" - anachronism, and its "modernity" - thematic and artistic novelty. Special emphasis was put on the strategies of Lieder’s debut, i.e. his publishing of volumes Poezje I (1889) and Poezje II (1891), which went unnoticed. In the face of the objective lack of a well-disposed group of peers, poets or critics, the strategies of artistic performance as chosen by the poet isolated him, in effect, from the reader. The abovementioned questions are presented in the context of historical poetics and sociology of literature, especially Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of literary field and his book The Rules of Art.