Abstract

The article is a proposal to read three essays – “Paul Valéry”, “Rainer Maria Rilke” and “Valery Larbaud” by Andrzej Pleśniewicz, a largely forgotten literary critic of the inter-war period. Reading selected works of the mentioned poets of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries by Andrzej Pleśniewicz appears to be a recognition of established in them diagnosis of the state of modern spirituality – the spiritual condition of modernity.