| Summary: | The paper features the writer´s memory of his first meeting with Peter Zajac as a reader and interpreter of poetry in the late 1970s and of his work on Štefan Strážay´s poetry being both initiation and inspiration. The paper then advances in several steps: it records Zajac´s initial generational vitality of developing theories, his inclination towards existentialism in the last quarter-century; this represents the framework of „shivering aesthetics“ being currently developed by P. Zajac – also in relation to the 20th century modern poetry; what proves to be fundamental for him is the phenomenon and notion of the „noble“. It can be exemplified by the writer´s brief excursion into the „country“ in Ivan Laučík´s poetry. The actual „shivering“ of the lyric text in its making and reading is demonstrated by the last sketch of Ján Ondruš´s poem Radosť (Joy, the introductory idyll, natural-musical melancholy, the interior of solitude, the final melancholy freeze and a possible lyric catharsis, their discreet oscillations).
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