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Adam Mickiewicz.
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In the following essay, Fagin offers an overview of Mickiewicz's literary career, observing that Mickiewicz's Romanticism is characterized by his patriotism, and that his poetry reflects...
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In the following essay, Zakrzewski offers a reexamination of the poem “Ciemność,” one of Mickiewicz's translations of Byron's poems. Suggesting that many unfa...
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In the following essay Fiszman reviews the lectures Mickiewicz conducted in Paris on Slavic literature, demonstrating that the lectures are informed throughout by Mickiewicz's comparison betwee...
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In the following essay, Treugutt analyzes the influence of Byron—as a symbol of individualism, revolt, and the worship of freedom—and of Napoleon—as a “poet of action, ...
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In the following essay, Matual explores the Russian poet Solov'ev's fascination with Mickiewicz and his work. Among Mickiewicz's Russian contemporaries, Matual explains, the Polis...
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In the following essay, Kalinowska-Blackwood evaluates Mickiewicz's Crimean Sonnets, in an effort to discern whether Mickiewicz viewed his Oriental subject matter in the stereotypically exploit...
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In the following essay, Shallcross assesses Mickiewicz's poem “On the Grecian Room in Princess Zeneida Volkonskaia's House in Moscow,” and contends that Mickiewicz portrays...
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In the following excerpt, Morfill discusses Mickiewicz's Crimean Sonnets, Pan Thadeusz, and Konrad Wallenrod, lamenting the poet’s relative obscurity outside of Poland.
Of all the writin...
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In the following essay, Zakrzewski extols the simple style and pure language of Mickiewicz's poetry.
Pоd sinhy gоr Tavridy оtdalinnоj Piviц Litvy v razmir ig&...
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In the following essay, Fiut compares and contrasts the life and writings of Czeslaw Milosz with Mickiewicz.
There can be no doubt that, for Czesław Miłosz, Adam Mickiewicz is the most i...
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In the essay below, Kalinowska-Blackwood examines the relationship between the Pilgrim and Mirza in Crimean Sonnets while considering Mickiewicz's portrayal of Eastern philosophies.
Since the p...
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In the following essay, Shallcross reinterprets Mickiewicz's poem “On the Grecian Room …,” arguing that the poet employs the room as a device to highlight issues about dome...
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In the following essay, Coleman explains Mickiewicz's incorporation of northern folk ballads into his poetry.
In four lines of the opening stanza of the Ode to Youth Mickiewicz describes in viv...
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In the following essay, Fabre stresses that Mickiewicz was the quintessential romantic poet.
‘How’, said Valéry, ‘can people discuss the subject of “romanticism ...
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In the following excerpt, Milosz describes the nature of Mickiewicz's poetry, the events of his life, and his importance to Polish literature.
Adam Mickiewicz was born on Christmas Eve in Nowog...
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In the following essay, Fagin describes the relationship between nationalism and the new romantic style of Mickiewicz.
Józef Witlin, one of Poland's contemporary writers and literary cri...
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In the following essay, Matual presents Russian writer and scholar Vladimir Solov'ev's theories on and praise of Mickiewicz.
Since the period of his Russian exile in the 1820s, Adam Mick...
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Critical Essay by Helen N. Fagin
