Abstrakt

On the Heritage of Josef Durdík as a Literary Critic

We summarise mostly negative historiographic opinions on the work of Josef Durdík in the field of literary criticism and confront them with ignored positive evaluation from his times. We argue that the main source or underestimation of Durdík by several generations of literary researchers is his analysis of Hálek’s collection of poems V přírodě. Final section of our article deals with the main arguments that support doubts about Durdík’s ability to review not only the poetry of Hálek but lyrical poetry as a whole.