Adam Mickiewicz (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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In the last twenty years of his life, Adam Mickiewicz, the national bard and prophet of Poland, wrote only a handful of poems, turning instead to religious and political works and to literary criticism. The messianic fervor of Mickiewicz’s prose is exemplified by Ksiegi narodu polskiego i pielgrzymstwa polskiego (1832; The Books of the Polish Nation and of the Polish Pilgrims, 1833, 1925), a tract written in a quasi-biblical style. Mickiewicz’s lectures given at the Collège de France in Paris, where from 1840 to 1844 he held the first...
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