„Wieszczek białoruski” i Nikołaj Karamzin. O poezji Jana Onoszki w perspektywie komparatystycznej

The present paper presents a book of poetry by Jan Onoszko (Połock, 1828–1829–1830?; 47 poems in Polish and a preface) in view of the comparative studies (Polish-Belarusian literary relations, Polish-Russian literary relations, European literary tradition from Antiquity to the Enlightenment). The expression “the little prophet” (“our”, “provincial”) comes from the preface to the collection and several research papers about Onoszko (T. Wróblewska; D. Samborska-Kukuć). Its links with the poetry of the Russian sentimentalist Nikolay Karamzin (1766–1826) are discussed on the basis of the poem From Karamzin (the problem with determining the source in Karamzin’s poetry) and the pessimistic and melancholic poems.