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    Sonnets from the Crimea
    Sonnets from the Crimea
    Sonnets from the Crimea
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    Sonnets from the Crimea

    By Edna Worthley Underwood and Adam Mickiewicz

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Sonnets from the Crimea - Edna Worthley Underwood

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Sonnets from the Crimea, by Adam Mickiewicz

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      Title: Sonnets from the Crimea

      Author: Adam Mickiewicz

      Translator: Edna Worthley Underwood

      Release Date: October 27, 2008 [EBook #27069]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SONNETS FROM THE CRIMEA ***

      Produced by Jimmy O'Regan (This file was produced from

      images generously made available by the University of

      California Libraries/The Internet Archive)

      Sonnets from the Crimea

      By Adam Mickiewicz

      Translated by

      Edna Worthley Underwood

      MCMXVII

      Paul Elder and Company, Publisher

      San Francisco

      Copyright, 1917, by

      Paul Elder and Company

      San Francisco

      CONTENTS

      ADAM MICKIEWICZ

      A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

      ADAM MICKIEWICZ

      (1798-1855)

      The last of the eighteenth century was an important period for Russia and Poland, not only politically, but in letters and art. It marked the birth of statesmen, patriots, poets and writers. It was into a Poland of great names and greater activities that Adam Mickiewicz was born in 1798, as son of an impoverished family of the old nobility. Three years before, the third and last partition of his native land had taken place, and the signed documents had been hastened to Petersburg to make more triumphant the birthday of the Great Catherine.

      Just a few years before this (1792), Kosciusko had courageously led his forty-five thousand valiant Poles in their brave defiance of

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