"Modernité romantique" : francuskie style lektury romantyzmu a romantyzm polski

The paper takes part in a revisionist discussion on relations between Romanticism and modernity in Polish and - especially - French literature studies. The attention is focused on recent books of Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre, Michel Brix, Alain Vaillant, Jean-Pierre Bertrand and Pascal Durand. The presented aspects of the relation Romanticism-modernity evoked by French researchers are: problem of definition of Romanticism, its temporal frontiers, coexistence of its contradictory trends, and - the most important - category of crisis, rupture with a language of poetry in force. This presentation leads to a comparison of analyses concerning situation of Polish and French literature in 19th century, and to a question about a possibility of transposition of some elements of French studies on Polish conditions. A revision of classifications, research of latent trends and tendencies, reflection on Romanticism as "modern antimodernism" is postulated.