Abstract
This paper considers a key text of the Czech National Revival dealing with aesthetics, poetics and rhetoric: Slovesnost by Josef Jungmann. It offers a critical analysis of modern scholarship (in particular that of Karel Hikl and Julius Dolanský) on the sources and models employed by Jungmann in preparation for both editions of the Slovesnost.
Furthermore, it analyses the divergence in Hikl's and Dolanský's approaches and suggests other possible sources and inspirations not yet explored in detail: secondary school Latin textbooks of rhetoric and poetics, August Gottlieb Meissner's lectures on aesthetics at the Prague university, which Jungmann attended, and the prescribed textbook, Entwurf einer Theorie und Literatur der schönen Wissenschaften by Johann Joachim Eschenburg. Finally, it reflects on possible approaches to Jungmann's work today.