Sonnets from the Crimea

By Adam Mickiewicz

The Crimean Sonnets are a series of Polish sonnets by Adam Mickiewicz, constituting an artistic telling of a journey through the Crimea published in 1826. The Crimean Sonnets are romantic descriptions of oriental nature and culture of the East which show the despair of the poet—a pilgrim, an exile longing for the homeland, driven from his home by a violent enemy. The Crimean Sonnets is considered the first sonnet cycle in Polish literature and a significant example of early romanticism in Poland, which gave rise to the huge popularity of this genre in Poland and inspired many Polish poets of the Romantic era as well as the Young Poland period.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 17, 2019
• ISBN: 4064066176341

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Adam Mickiewicz

Sonnets from the Crimea

Published by Good Press, 2019

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EAN 4064066176341

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ADAM MICKIEWICZ

A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

ADAM MICKIEWICZ

(1798-1855)

SONNETS FROM THE CRIMEA

THE ACKERMAN STEPPE

BECALMED

MOUNTAINS FROM THE KESLOV STEPPE

BAKTSCHI SERAI

BAKTSCHI SERAI BY NIGHT

THE GRAVE OF COUNTESS POTOCKA

THE GRAVES OF THE HAREM

BAYDARY

ALUSHTA BY DAY

ALUSHTA BY NIGHT

TSCHATIR DAGH

TSCHATIR DAGH

THE PASS ACROSS THE ABYSS IN THE TSCHUFUT-KALE

(MIRZA)

THE RUINS OF BALACLAVA

ON JUDA'S CLIFF

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ADAM MICKIEWICZ

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ADAM MICKIEWICZ

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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,