Sunday, January 8, 2012

Adam Mickiewicz

Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855)

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Adam Bernard Mickiewicz was a Romantic poet, writing in the Polish language, and described variously as a Pole, a Lithuanian or a Polish-Lithuanian. He is one of Poland's Three Bards a national poet of Poland and one of the greatest Slavic language poets alongside Alexander Pushkin. He has also been described as a transformation poet and Slavonic bard. He was the most prominent creator of Romantic drama in Poland,, compared both at home and in Western Europe to Byron and Goethe. He is known primarily as the author of the poetic novel Dziady and national epic Pan Tadeusz, which is considered the last great epic of Polish-Lithuanian noble culture. Mickiewicz's other influential works include Konrad Wallenrod and Grayna. All served as inspiration during regional rebellions and as foundations for the concept of Poland as "the Christ of Nations. " Mickiewicz was active in the struggle to achieve independence for his homeland, then part of the Russian Empire. Having spent five years in internal exile in central Russia for political activities, he left the Empire in 1829 and spent the rest of his life in exile, settling first in Rome, later in Paris, where he became professor of Slavic literature at the Collge de France. He died, probably of cholera, at Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire, where he had gone to help organize Polish forces to fight against Russia in the Crimean War. His remains were later moved to Wawel Cathedral in Krakw, Poland.



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