Tadeusz Rozewicz's 1947 Niepokoj (Anxiety) is one of most crucial poetic volume in the history Polish 20th c. literature and, as a matter of fact, most forgotten one. The article attempts to explain the origin of this paradoxical situation in which one should see both the consequences of the steps taken by Rozewicz himself who markedly rephrased the volume, and a token of interpretive stereotypes durability that accumulated around Anxiety and that can be found even in the papers by such scholars (e.g. Tadeusz Klak, Krzysztof Klosinski) who declared the intention of critical evaluation of those stereotypes. Nonetheless, the article is also an attempt to reduce the literary historical carelessness: it aims to sketch the image of Anxiety's reception among its first readers, and above all it shows the diversified content of the 1947 volume which questions the fixed conviction about the straight and independent relationship between Rozewicz's war experience and poetics of his early poems.
