Review article
https://doi.org/10.21066/carcl.libri.14.2.1
Children’s Poetry: Questions, Doubts, and Challenges from the Polish Perspective
Krystyna Zabawa
; The Institute of Modern Languages at Ignatianum University in Kraków, Poland
Abstract
This paper aims to present children’s poetry as a complex phenomenon that eludes strict definitions and classifications, even if scholars attempt to define and classify it. Another objective is to review the Polish situation for an international audience. Children’s poetry appears as a significant element of every culture; as such, it constitutes a challenge for poets, translators, editors, critics, scholars, teachers, librarians… The article provides insight into Polish (and to some extent international) research. The place of children’s poetry in the corpus of poetry as a whole is considered and the role of illustrations is emphasised. The examples come mostly from Polish
literature with several significant foreign works translated into Polish. The article consists of five main parts. Each of them has a question mark in the title which expresses my conviction that there are still more questions than
answers in this field. And perhaps this is also the value of poetry – it defies academic formulas.
Keywords
children’s poetry; Polish research on children’s poetry; poetry illustrations; cross-cultural and cross-generational phenomenon;
Hrčak ID:
342398
URI
Publication date:
24.12.2025.
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