Collation of sources poems by Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin based on selected lyrics contained in the poet’s autograph – editorial dilemmas

Abstract

Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin has created manuscript for a few years. It was a kind of his poetica will. In this collection, titled Poezje Franciszka Dionizego Kniaźnina ręką własną pisane, author included works published in three previous collections volumes of verse as well as completely new poems. Reused works had many editorial alterations compared to original ones. First time published works had been totally unknown before. Poezje Franciszka Dionizego Kniaźnina ręką własną pisane was not published as printed, scientific edition yet. This article describes today’s editor dilemmas about making a critical edition of four first book contained in the first volume of autograph. Mainly it is focused on the problem of comparasion variants of particular texts, which often are very different.