Poezye
work by Mickiewicz
Also known as: “Poezye”
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19th-century Polish literature
- In Polish literature: Romanticism
His two-volume Poezye (1822–23; “Poems”) was the first major literary event of the period. The second volume included parts two and four of Dziady (Forefathers’ Eve), in which he combined folklore and mystic atmosphere to create a new kind of Romantic drama. Mickiewicz wrote his greatest works…
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discussed in biography
- In Adam Mickiewicz
Mickiewicz’s first volume of poems, Poezye (1822; “Poetry”), included ballads, romances, and an important preface explaining his admiration of western European poetic forms and his desire to transplant them to Polish literature. The second volume of Poezye (1823) contained parts two and four of his Dziady (Forefather’s Eve), in which…
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