Romantyczne pokrewieństwa gatunkowe. Powieść poetycka i ballada

The article raises an issue of genre liaisons between two genres popular in early Polish Romanticism. The thorough analysis of four categories (such as narrative situation, space time, plot and presence of details) reveals that the construction of spacetime in poetic tale is similar to that in romantic ballad. Moreover, in foreign literature one can observe that some epic poems written by E.A. Poe or S.T. Coleridge present a sort of genre mutation. Their structure refers to essential aspects of both literary forms. On the other hand, because of the situation of poetic tale in Polish literature and important role played by this genre in our cul ture it is impossible to point out such an example in Polish literature.