Tadeusz Peiper

Polish poet

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Tadeusz Peiper was a Polish poet and a central figure in the Awangarda Krakowska (Kraków Vanguard) literary movement, which began in Kraków in 1922. Peiper edited the movement's journal, Zwrotnica, from 1922 to 1923 and again from 1926 to 1927. He is primarily remembered for his theories on poetry, which opposed the lyrical and anti-intellectual style of the popular Skamander group. The Awangarda Krakowska, though producing few works, significantly influenced the modernization of poetic technique in Poland, drawing parallels with similar movements like Futurism in other European countries.12

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Tadeusz Peiper, the first poet in Poland to advance a poetics opposed to that of the Skamander group of poets (who had turned toward the classical in their effort to forge a modernist poetry), was Zwrotnica’s editor from 1922 to 1923 and again from 1926…
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Tadeusz Peiper, the first poet in Poland to advance a poetics opposed to that of the Skamander group of poets (who had turned toward the classical in their effort to forge a modernist poetry), was Zwrotnica’s editor from 1922 to 1923 and again from 1926…
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