MICKIEWICZ, ADAM

äˈdäm mētskyĕˈvĭch, 1798–1855, Polish romantic poet and playwright, b. Belorussia. He studied at the Univ. of Vilna, where he was arrested (1823) for pan-Polish activities and deported to Russia. He was permitted (1829) to travel through Europe, remaining there following the Polish uprising of 1830. Later he served as professor of literature in Lausanne (1839) and in Paris (1840–44). In the revolutionary upheavals of 1848 and again in the Crimean War he organized legions for Polish emancipation. He died in Constantinople during a cholera epidemic. Mickiewicz's poetry gave international stature to Polish literature. His powerful verse expressed a romantic view of the soul and the mysteries of life, often employing Polish folk themes. His major works include the fantastic drama The Forefathers (1823); the philosophical poem Konrad Wallenrod (1828); The Books of the Polish Nation and of Polish Pilgrimage (1832); and the great epic Pan Tadeusz (1834, tr. 1917). This poem, Mickiewicz's masterpiece, is a comprehensive and Homeric treatment of the life of the Polish gentry.

See biography by M. M. Gardner (1911, repr. 1971); studies by W. Weintraub (1954 and 1959) and M. Kridl, ed. (1951, repr. 1969).

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The Poetry of Adam Mickiewicz
Book by Wiktor Weintraub, Cornelis H. Van Schooneveld; Mouton, 1954
Subjects: Mickiewicz, Adam--1798-1855
...0<0. Eduard Krakowski, Adam Mickiewicz , philosophe mystique, Paris...biography by K. Pruszynski, Adam Mickiewicz , London, 1950. Boy-Zelenski...which are by Piotr Chmielowski, Adam Mickiewicz two vols., first ed., Warsaw...
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Poetic Drama: An Anthology of Plays in Verse from the Ancient Greek to the Modern American
Includes: Agamemnon; Oedipus Coloneus; Ion; The Acharnians; The Chalk Circle; Nakamitsu; Adam; Abraham, Melchisedec, and Isaac; The Second Shepherds' Play; Everyman; The Wandering Scholar from Paradise; Tamburlaine the Great, Part I; Measure for Measure; Volpone or The Fox; A New Way to Pay Old Debts; The White Devil; The Sheep Well; Cinna; Athaliah; The Misanthrope; Torquato Tasso; The Death of Wallenstein; The Cenci; The White Saviour; The Last Night of Don Juan; The King's Threshold; Gruach; The Dog beneath the Skin; The Death of Eve; Aria da Capo; Hole in the Wall; The Fall of the City; Shenandoah
Book by Alfred Kreymborg; Modern Age Books, 1941
Subjects: Drama--Collections
...Selvinsky, Svetlov. BELGIUM: Maeterlinck, Kistemaeckers, Verhaeren, Vanzype, Crommelynck. HOLLAND: Heijermans. POLAND: Mickiewicz, Slowacki, Krasinski, Blizenski, Batucki, Przybyszewski, Wyspianski, Zeromski, Rostworowski. HUNGARY: Sziligeti...
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My War against the Nazis: A Jewish Soldier with the Red Army
Book by Adam Broner; University of Alabama Press, 2007
Subjects: Broner, Adam--1925-, Jews--Poland--Biography, Jews--Soviet Union--Biography, Poland--Armia--Biography, World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish, World War, 1939-1945--Personal Narratives, Jewish
...in Lodz, 128-29 Jozefowicz, Adam, 176 Kalecki, Michal, 147,162...described, 141-42 Kruczkowski, Adam,135,162 Krushchev, Nikita...Franciszek, 79 Mijal, Kazimierz, 106 Mickiewicz, Adam, 153 Mikolajczyk, Stanislaw, 84...
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Joseph Conrad--Comparative Essays
Book by Adam Gillon, Raymond Brebach; Texas Tech University Press, 1994
Subjects: Conrad, Joseph--1857-1924--Criticism And Interpretation
...Leonardo da Vinci, 129 Leventhal, Barry, 284n tIslc Adam, 25 Lola, 38 Lolita, 24-30, 38, 40 Lolita, 20...278n, 280n Meyers, Jeffrey, 282n Michelangelo, 129 Mickiewicz, Adam, xi, 2, 45-6, 62, 67, 70, 274, 279n Mikulin...
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The Social Science Encyclopedia - Vol. 2
Book by Adam Kuper, Jessica Kuper; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Social Sciences--Encyclopedias
...726 , 856 , 857 , 901 , 902 Metraux, Alfred 254 Meyer, J.R. 117 Meyrowitz, Joshua 615 Michelet, Jules 699 Mickiewicz, Adam 508 microeconomics 206 , 259 , 260 , 265 , 338 , 646 -7; policy 593 , 594 ; supply-side economics 1017 ; see...
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journal articles on: Mickiewicz Adam  - 95 results

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The "crimean Sonnets" of Adam Mickiewicz--a New Translation
Journal article by Christopher Adam; Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 40, 1998
Subjects: History & criticism, Literary criticism, Mickiewicz, Adam, Mickiewicz, Adam Bernard (1798-1855), Poetry, Poets, Polish literature, Slavic languages, Translations
The "crimean Sonnets" of Adam Mickiewicz--a New Translation by Christopher Adam In this bicentenary year of his birth, Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855), the Byron, Goethe and Pushkin of Poland, remains...
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Pushkin, Mickiewicz, and "the Horse of Stone" in Nostromo
Journal article by Christopher Cairney; The Conradian : the Journal of the Joseph Conrad Society (U.K.), Vol. 29, 2004
Pushkin, Mickiewicz, and "the Horse of Stone" in Nostromo...poem "The Bronze Horseman" (1837) or Adam Mickiewiczs "The Forefathers Eve...main plaza, we can also turn to Adam Mickiewicz, an activist in the struggle for Polish...
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Writer's "task" and Talent's Play
Journal article by Boian Biolchev; Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 43, 2001
Subjects: History & criticism, Literary criticism, Mickiewicz, Adam, Poetry, Poland, Polish literature, Slavic languages, Writers
...the appearance of the poetry of Adam Mickiewicz. The sky was the limit, everything...personality and his monumental work, Adam Mickiewicz: The National Poet of Poland...biological" reconstruction of Adam Mickiewicz. The author is obviously outside...
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Images of the Jew Focused on in the Translated Polish Works of Tadeusz Borowski, Jerzy Andrzejewski, and Czeslaw Milosz
Journal article by Harriet L; Shofar, Vol. 18, 2000
Subjects: Andrzewski, Jerzy, Borowski, Tadeusz, Culture, Jews, Levine, Madeline G., Literature, Mickiewicz, Adam, Milosz, Czeslaw, Minority & ethnic groups, Segel, Harold B.
...and Jews together."(5) Polands illustrious poet, Adam Mickiewicz (1799-1855), produced an idealized Jewish character...Stranger, p. 4. (5)Segel, Stranger, p. 15. (6)Adam Mickewicz, Pan Tadeusz (New York: Hippocrene Books...
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Overcoming the Past
Journal article by Jürgen Habermas, Adam Michnik, David Fernbach; New Left Review, Vol. a, 1994
Subjects: Right And Left (Political Science), Socialism
...Polish achievements, of what Mickiewicz or Kolakowski have written...certain division of labour. Adam Michnik says that many things...countries. It seems to me that Adam Michnik draws the right conclusions...Georgia, Poland and so on as Adam Michnik. At the same time...
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The Witness of Czeslaw Milosz
Magazine article by Jeremy Driscoll; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, November 2004
Subjects: Milosz, Czeslaw--Criticism and interpretation, Poetry--Criticism and interpretation
...reading Jacob Boehme, who had so strongly influenced Adam Mickiewicz, the critical point of reference for all modern Polish...way, at least to some extent. In addition to the Mickiewicz influence, his own temperament inclined him toward...
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Chopin, Poland's Musical Voice
Magazine article by Tom Pniewski; World and I, Vol. 14, October 1999
Subjects: Chopin, Frederic--Appreciation, Music, Pianists--Appreciation, Poland
...of Polands great Romantic masters. His fellows are Adam Mickiewicz (1798--1855), Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846--1916), and Jan Matejko (1838--1893). Mickiewicz, the "Polish Byron," penned great historical poems...
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They Learned from the Workers
Magazine article by Stephen Browne; Ideas on Liberty, Vol. 52, October 2002
Subjects: History, Social conditions & trends, Workers
...closing, by government order, of the play Dziady by Adam Mickiewicz, the nineteenth-century Lithuanian writer who is...to have buried his face in his hands and cried, "Mickiewicz? Oh no, it cant be true!" The upshot of it was...
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The Witness of Czeslaw Milosz
Magazine article by Jeremy Driscoll; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, November 2004
Subjects: Milosz, Czeslaw--Criticism and interpretation, Religion and poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Religious poetry--Criticism and interpretation
...reading Jacob Boehme, who had so strongly influenced Adam Mickiewicz, the critical point of reference for all modern Polish...way, at least to some extent. In addition to the Mickiewicz influence, his own temperament inclined him toward...
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Napoleon and Polish Identity
Magazine article by Andrzej Nieuwazny; History Today, Vol. 48, May 1998
Subjects: Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1814--Influence, Poland--History
...minister and friend of the Tsar, Prince Adam Czartoryski, who wanted to unite...divorces were obtained) and Prince Adam Czartoryski, still dreaming of the...Pan Tadeusz, written in 1834 by Adam Mickiewicz in exile in Paris, describes the...
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Lviv Akin to a Budget-Trip Vienna: Mix of Architecture, Culture in Ukraine City
Newspaper article by Patrick W. Murphy; The Washington Times, August 7, 1999
...south axis then runs through Mickiewicz Square, the hub of the entire city, with a tall column honoring Adam Mickiewicz, the most beloved author of...72-76-65. George Hotel, Mickiewicz Square, 1; phone 011-380...
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Honor Rolls
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November 22, 2008
Subjects: Education grants
...Scottley Sandnes, Iony Schmidt, Adam Shelton, Samantha Smyth, Taleese...Alexander Mejia, Elizabeth Mejia, Adam Mickiewicz, Kristina Miller, Angel Miranda...Allen, Melanie Bala, Baran Meagan, Adam Barnard, Jan Bartelt, Stephanie...
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Shylock Didn't Ask for 454g of Flesh! ... and No One Wants to Drink a Litre of Wine, Says Peter Hitchens. Yet Ten Years after a Market Trader Was Convicted of Selling Bananas by the Pound, the Metric Fanatics' Victory Is Complete
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), January 30, 2011
...their heritage snatched from them all in one go who truly understand what they are losing. The great Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz said: Your country is like your health. You only value it when you have lost it. But in this world of subtlety...
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Calendar; Top Picks
Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle, Gary Arnold; The Washington Times, June 29, 2000
...Award for career achievement earlier this year. Inspired by the work of an epic poet of the early 19th century, Adam Mickiewicz, the film celebrates the struggles of Polish patriots. Daniel Olbrychski has the leading role. Released last year...
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Historic Krakow Enjoys a Lively College-Town Vibe
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), October 16, 2011
Subjects: News agencies, The Associated Press
...square will find history meeting the 21st century as hip-hop dancers perform in front of the landmark statue of poet Adam Mickiewicz while an older man plays an accordion under the city gate. The large, long Sukiennice building takes up the middle...
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encyclopedia articles on: Mickiewicz Adam  - 3 results

 
 
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Mickiewicz, Adam
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MICKIEWICZ, ADAM a dam metskye vich, 1798 1855, Polish romantic poet and playwright, b. Belorussia. He studied at the Univ. of Vilna, where...
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Polish Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...freedom predominated, developed by the patriotic poets Adam Mickiewicz , Juliusz Slowacki , and Zygmunt Krasinski . Romantic...of the late 1960s is the expatriate poet and novelist Adam Zagajewski. Principal essayists and critics include...
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Warsaw
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Cross Church, the 15th-century St. Carmelite Church, several fine palaces, and the monuments to Copernicus and Adam Mickiewicz . The medieval Stare Miasto old town, with its marketplace and 14th-century cathedral, was rebuilt according to...


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