Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855)
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Mickiewicz was born in Lithuania to the family of a landless lawyer. He received a solid classical education at Wilno University, then the best in Poland. Arrested in 1823 for suspected revolutionary activities, he was exiled to Russia in 1825. His four and a half years there were a period of vis mere poetical and social success. He became a friend of Aleksandr Pushkin and a welcome figure in aristocratic salons. In 1829, Mickiewicz left Russia. During the 1831 uprising, he appeared briefly in Prussian Poland and subsequently joined the Great Emigration in Paris, where he was viewed as the spiritual leader of the exiles. During the early 1840's, Mickiewicz became a follower of the Lithuanian mystic Towianski, a move that finished him as a poet and made him unpopular with most of his fellow exiles. After the outbreak of the Crimean War, his anti-Russian activities brought the poet to Turkey, where he died in late 1855. His remains were transferred to a crypt in Wawel Castle in Cracow in 1890. Although his education in classical literature left a perceptible trace on his poetic diction, Mickiewicz was both the initiator of the romantic movement and one of its great figures. His literary position was established in 1822 with the publication of a short but striking anthology of poems. His subsequent ballads and historical poems were even finer; however, he reached special heights in his dramatic cycle "Forefathers' Eve" (1823). Mickiewicz's Russian period is distinguished by the creation of sonnets (especially the Crimean Sonnets cycle) and of the poem "Konrad Wallenrod" (1826--27). A period of relative poetic sterility, that began after "Konrad Wallenrod," ended in 1832 when Mickiewicz published his Books of the Polish Nation, a work in biblical prose that aspired to be the gospel of emigres and is the clearest example of Polish national messianism. In 1832, Mickiewicz also wrote "Forefathers' Eve, Part III" which he loosely connected with the earlier dramatic cycle, and in which he considered Poland's relationship with Russia through the prism of an intense personal vision. Mickiewicz's last masterpiece is "Pan Tadeusz" (1834) which continues the traditions of the epic and, to a degree, represents a turning away on the poet's part from romanticism. The poem deals with life in Lithuania from 1811 to 1812. A large number of characters, all of whom are basically good, and a wealth of lovingly described details of nature and the country society, combine to make "Pan Tadeusz" an extraordinary, if idealized, canvas of everyday life. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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(eng) Adam Mickiewicz was born a Russian citizen, three years after the Third Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had caused his family lands to become part of the Russian Empire. Descended from Polish nobility, he was a champion of Polish nationalism, both through his poetry and through direct political activism, for which he was sentenced to internal exile within the Russian Empire. He eventually received permission to leave Russia, and spent the rest of his life in exile.
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Værker af Adam Mickiewicz
Powieści poetyckie 5 eksemplarer
Dziady część II,IV i I 4 eksemplarer
Sonety krymskie: Lektura z opracowaniem 4 eksemplarer
Poems 4 eksemplarer
To lubię... 3 eksemplarer
I sonetti di Crimea e altre poesie 3 eksemplarer
Tadeusz Soplica - Canti 3 eksemplarer
Dzieła poetyckie. 1. Wiersze 3 eksemplarer
Scritti politici 3 eksemplarer
Dzieła poetyckie. 2. Powieści poetyckie. Księgi narodu polskiego i pielgrzymstwa polskiego 3 eksemplarer
Literatura słowiańska : kurs pierwszy : półrocze I 2 eksemplarer
The sonnets : including the erotic sonnets, the Crimean sonnets, and uncollected sonnets (2018) 2 eksemplarer
Dziady 2 eksemplarer
Wybor pism 2 eksemplarer
Wybór Poezji 2 eksemplarer
Les Slaves, cours professé au Collège de France (1840-1841) Tome premier: Les pays slaves et la Pologne. Histoire et… 2 eksemplarer
Poems by Adam Mickiewicz 2 eksemplarer
Utwory wybrane. [T. 1], Wiersze 2 eksemplarer
Dzieła poetyckie. 3. Utwory dramatyczne 2 eksemplarer
Adam Mickiewicz, 1798-1855 : selected poems 2 eksemplarer
Świtezianka 2 eksemplarer
Romantyczność 2 eksemplarer
Dzieła poetyckie 2 eksemplarer
Pan Tadeushu. A. 1-2 2 eksemplarer
Dzieła poetyckie. 3 Utwory dramatyczne 2 eksemplarer
UTWORY DRAMATYCZNE 3 2 eksemplarer
Trybuna Ludów 2 eksemplarer
Dziady : cz. II i IV 2 eksemplarer
t. 05 - Proza artystyczna i pisma krytyczne 2 eksemplarer
Eilėraščiai: Poemos 2 eksemplarer
t. 15 - Listy. Cz. 2, 1830-1841 2 eksemplarer
Избранные произведения в 2 томах. Т.2. 2 eksemplarer
t. 16 - Listy. Cz. 3, 1842-1848 2 eksemplarer
t. 14 - Listy. Cz. 1, 1815-1829 2 eksemplarer
Сонеты 2 eksemplarer
t. 17 - Listy. Cz. 4, 1849-1855 2 eksemplarer
Utwory wybrane. T. 3 Dziady 1 eksemplar
Pisma prozą. Cz. 2, Księgi narodu i pielgrzymstwa polskiego ; Pisma polityczne z lat 1832-1835 1 eksemplar
Utwory wybrane. T. 4 Pan Tadeusz 1 eksemplar
Dzieła poetyckie. T. 4, Pan Tadeusz 1 eksemplar
Improvizacio de Konrad 1 eksemplar
Utwory wybrane. T. 5 Listy 1 eksemplar
Adam Mickiewicz: 1798-1855 Selected Poems 1 eksemplar
Przyjaciele 1 eksemplar
Przyjaciele Złote Bajki 1 eksemplar
Dzieła poetyckie. T. 2, Powieści poetyckie ; Księgi narodu polskiego i pielgrzymstwa polskiego (1992) 1 eksemplar
Lilije 1 eksemplar
Literatura słowiańska : kurs trzeci i czwarty 1 eksemplar
Rybka 1 eksemplar
Drames polonais d'Adam Mickiewicz: les Confédérés de Bar, Jacques Jasinski ou Les Deux Polognes (Litterature)… (2013) 1 eksemplar
Стихотворения и поэмы 1 eksemplar
Стихотворения ; Поэмы 1 eksemplar
Dziela wszystkie Adama Mickiewicza 1 eksemplar
Pan Tadeusz I 1 eksemplar
Les Slaves, Cours professé au Collège de France (1841-1842), t.II Les pays slaves et la Pologne, Histoire,… (1900) 1 eksemplar
Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics 1 eksemplar
Pisma, Volume 3 (Polish Edition) 1 eksemplar
Pisma Adama Mickiewicza. T. 2 1 eksemplar
Ballady i romanse. Sonety 1 eksemplar
Reduta Ordona 1 eksemplar
Kurhanek Maryli 1 eksemplar
Trybuna Ludów 1 eksemplar
Do przyjaciół 1 eksemplar
Pierwiosnek 1 eksemplar
Rękawiczka 1 eksemplar
Tukaj albo próby przyjaźni 1 eksemplar
Dudarz 1 eksemplar
Śmierć Pułkownika 1 eksemplar
Dziady. Część trzecia 1 eksemplar
Dziadów część III 1 eksemplar
Listy. Cz. 3 1 eksemplar
Listy. Cz. 2 1 eksemplar
Listy. Cz. 1 1 eksemplar
Pisma różne 1 eksemplar
Utwory wybrane. T. 2. Powieści poetyckie 1 eksemplar
Lis i Koziol 1 eksemplar
Selected poetry & prose 1 eksemplar
Wiersze-1 1 eksemplar
Konrad Wallenrod i Grażyna. z przekładem francuzkim Kryst.Ostrowskiego i angielskim Leona Jabłońskiego 1 eksemplar
Grażyna [Dokument dźwiękowy] 1 eksemplar
Poems / Translated Mainly by Jack Lindsay; with Six Original Wood-Engravings by Dennis Postle (1957) 1 eksemplar
Wiersze-5 1 eksemplar
Wiersze-4 1 eksemplar
Wiersze-3 1 eksemplar
Wiersze-2 1 eksemplar
Balady i romanse (Polish Edition) 1 eksemplar
Mickiewicz In Song 1 eksemplar
The Great Improvisation 1 eksemplar
Poezye Adama Mickewicza 1 eksemplar
Improvisation (aus "Totenfeier) 1 eksemplar
Dzieła poetyckie. T. 3, Utwory dramatyczne 1 eksemplar
Wybór pism 1 eksemplar
Dziadów część III 1 eksemplar
Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Adam Mickiewicz (Illustrated) (Delphi Poets Series Book 74) (2017) 1 eksemplar
Adam Mickiewicz, 1798-1855 1 eksemplar
Poemas 1 eksemplar
Konfederaci barscy 1 eksemplar
Dzieła. T. 12, Trybuna Ludów 1 eksemplar
Pani Twardowska i inne bajki 1 eksemplar
Ballady I Romanse I Wybór Poezji 1 eksemplar
Pisma prozą Tom 3 1 eksemplar
Pisma prozą Tom 2 1 eksemplar
Pisma prozą Tom 1 1 eksemplar
Utwory dramatyczne Dziady 1 eksemplar
t. 01 - Wiersze 1 eksemplar
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- Adam Mickiewicz was born a Russian citizen, three years after the Third Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had caused his family lands to become part of the Russian Empire. Descended from Polish nobility, he was a champion of Polish nationalism, both through his poetry and through direct political activism, for which he was sentenced to internal exile within the Russian Empire. He eventually received permission to leave Russia, and spent the rest of his life in exile.
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As Pushkin is to Russia, and Shevchenko is to Ukraine, so Mickiewicz is to Poland, its national poet. The English translation of this book is not easy to find even in Poland, but I was lucky enough to get my hands on this brilliant modern translation from Bill Johnston in the Pan Tadeusz Museum in Wrocław. I have to say that after reading it, it’s criminal to me that it isn’t better known or more highly regarded outside of Poland.
It’s an epic story told in verse, complete with literary references to classic literature, but if that sounds intimidating or dry, nothing could be further from the truth. The book is highly approachable and engaging from beginning to end. The all-too-human characters are cleverly developed, and the story is told with both restraint and concision. There is humor, romance, merriment, and feuding amongst landowners. The rural setting is beautifully evoked throughout the book by Mickiewicz, who had clearly spent time in nature.
Mickiewicz wrote the book from France in 1834 when Poland’s uprisings against its partitioning had failed, but he makes the setting 1811-12, at a time when there was hope that in siding with Napoleon, who had carved out the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw, that they would regain the full independence of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and their former glory days. Readers at the time knew how tragically that would turn out, and this combined with Mickiewicz’s childhood memories of a time that was slipping past make the book incredibly poignant. Readers today also know of how partitioning and subjugation in the 18th and 19th centuries would segue to an eerily similar invasion from both Germany and the Soviet Union in the 20th, with outrageous atrocities that are still hard to fathom. It all makes for a very stirring read, particularly at the end with his epilogue, when he laments the fate of his country, as well as cherishes his childhood memories.
This should be required reading for anyone travelling to Poland, and I can’t recommend this edition highly enough. The introduction from Johnston, thoughtful translation, and helpful notes all enhance what is a great book. As he points out with such insight, “Perhaps one of the reasons Pan Tadeusz is so popular is precisely that it beautifully melds two impossible longings – for a future free and independent Poland, and for the lost Poland of the past. The interplay between these two unslaked desires provides a mighty emotional tension at the heart of the poem.”
Just this quote on Poland, which reverberated within me as I toured the country, getting greater insight into such a sad history, and wondering how one could even go on afterwards:
“The blood, though, spilled in Poland lately,
The tears that flood the land completely,
The glory that still echoes quietly –
We had no strength to think of these!
For nations can face such agonies
That, gazing upon their misery,
Even Courage stands helplessly.”… (mere)
It’s an epic story told in verse, complete with literary references to classic literature, but if that sounds intimidating or dry, nothing could be further from the truth. The book is highly approachable and engaging from beginning to end. The all-too-human characters are cleverly developed, and the story is told with both restraint and concision. There is humor, romance, merriment, and feuding amongst landowners. The rural setting is beautifully evoked throughout the book by Mickiewicz, who had clearly spent time in nature.
Mickiewicz wrote the book from France in 1834 when Poland’s uprisings against its partitioning had failed, but he makes the setting 1811-12, at a time when there was hope that in siding with Napoleon, who had carved out the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw, that they would regain the full independence of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and their former glory days. Readers at the time knew how tragically that would turn out, and this combined with Mickiewicz’s childhood memories of a time that was slipping past make the book incredibly poignant. Readers today also know of how partitioning and subjugation in the 18th and 19th centuries would segue to an eerily similar invasion from both Germany and the Soviet Union in the 20th, with outrageous atrocities that are still hard to fathom. It all makes for a very stirring read, particularly at the end with his epilogue, when he laments the fate of his country, as well as cherishes his childhood memories.
This should be required reading for anyone travelling to Poland, and I can’t recommend this edition highly enough. The introduction from Johnston, thoughtful translation, and helpful notes all enhance what is a great book. As he points out with such insight, “Perhaps one of the reasons Pan Tadeusz is so popular is precisely that it beautifully melds two impossible longings – for a future free and independent Poland, and for the lost Poland of the past. The interplay between these two unslaked desires provides a mighty emotional tension at the heart of the poem.”
Just this quote on Poland, which reverberated within me as I toured the country, getting greater insight into such a sad history, and wondering how one could even go on afterwards:
“The blood, though, spilled in Poland lately,
The tears that flood the land completely,
The glory that still echoes quietly –
We had no strength to think of these!
For nations can face such agonies
That, gazing upon their misery,
Even Courage stands helplessly.”… (mere)
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gbill | 4 andre anmeldelser | Jul 27, 2019 | Adam Bernard Mickiewicz, född 24 december 1798 i Zaosie nära Nowogródek, då i Ryska imperiet, nu i Vitryssland, död 26 november 1855 vid Konstantinopel, polsk författare, ofta ansedd som Polens nationalskald. Mickiewicz är den polska romantiska poesins främste representant.
1834 utgav han i Paris sitt litterära storverk, verseposet Pan Tadeusz czyli Ostatni zajazd na Litwie (Herr Tadeusz eller Sista fejden i Litauen). Denna verkligt klassiska hjältedikt i homerisk stil återspeglar förträffligt det borttynande polska adelssamhällets inre och yttre liv i början av 1800-talet, då Napoleons tåg till östra Europa väckte nya förhoppningar i de polska sinnena. Många av de tecknade personerna är återgivna efter naturen, stundtals i komisk belysning, men med en djup underström av patriotisk sympati.… (mere)
1834 utgav han i Paris sitt litterära storverk, verseposet Pan Tadeusz czyli Ostatni zajazd na Litwie (Herr Tadeusz eller Sista fejden i Litauen). Denna verkligt klassiska hjältedikt i homerisk stil återspeglar förträffligt det borttynande polska adelssamhällets inre och yttre liv i början av 1800-talet, då Napoleons tåg till östra Europa väckte nya förhoppningar i de polska sinnena. Många av de tecknade personerna är återgivna efter naturen, stundtals i komisk belysning, men med en djup underström av patriotisk sympati.… (mere)
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Lithuania! My homeland! You are health alone.
Your worth can only ever be known by one
Who’s lost you. Today I see and tell anew
Your lovely beauty, as I long for you.
Pan Tadeusz: The Last Forray Into Lithuania by Adam Mickiewicz and the new translation by Bill Johnston is an epic poem about the divided Poland and Lithuania. Mickiewicz was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator, professor of Slavic literature, and political activist. He is regarded as the national poet in Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus. Johnston is a prolific Polish language literary translator and Professor of comparative literature at Indiana University. His work has helped to expose English-speaking readers to classic and contemporary Polish poetry and fiction.
Pan Tadeusz is a poem for those interested in Polish/Lithuanian history or heritage. Most Americans would know little of Polish history except for the opening of World War II. Those who remember the Cold War will recall, despite Gerald Ford's assertion, that Poland was under Communist control and the US does not recognize the incorporation of Lithuania into the USSR. Poland has lived a rather quiet history as a nation for those living today. Poland was a historically a cultural and military territory. Part of the problem also comes with what is Poland. Its size has varied, and it ceased to exist as a nation more than once. My great grandmother's immigration papers said she was born in Russian occupied Poland claiming Polish as her nationality. With borders that changed so often, it is not hard to imagine how one person could be the national poet of three different countries.
Pan Tadeusz is a rather long poem covering five days in 1811 and two days in 1812. It contains a bit of a Shakespeare theme (Romeo and Juliet) and a bit of Les Miserables' to the barricades. Johnston provides a detailed introduction which helps clarify regional realities of the time and a translation that remains true to the original intent including the humor. The verse flows well, and much of the rhyme remains in place, not every line rhymes, but there is enough to keep the read locked into the rhythm of the poetry. There does not seem to be any forced wording in the translation; it is easily readable.
Johnston's translation of Pan Tadeusz brings the Polish classic in an enjoyable form to the English language readers without losing the original intention and form. Both the author and translator include notes characters, locations, as well as translations where words don't seem to have a word for word replacement. An exceptionally well done original work and rendering.
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