Adama Mickiewicza Konrad Wallenrod I Grazyna

By Adam Mickiewicz

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Title:	Adama Mickiewicza Konrad Wallenrod I Grazyna
Author:	Adam Mickiewicz
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Language:	Polish
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Collections:	American Libraries Collection
Historic Publication Date:	1851
Publisher:	J. Tysiewicz


Citation APA MLA Chicago Mickiewicz, B. A. (1851). Adama Mickiewicza Konrad Wallenrod I Grazyna. Retrieved from https://self.gutenberg.cc/

Summary
This 1851 edition, published by J. Tysiewicz, brings together two narrative poems by Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855), Poland's great Romantic poet. Grażyna (1823) is set in medieval Lithuania: when Prince Litawor plans to join forces with the Teutonic Knights against his rival Witold, his wife Grażyna secretly puts on his armor and leads his warriors against the Order, and she dies of her wounds in the victory. Konrad Wallenrod (1828) tells of a Lithuanian boy captured and raised among the Teutonic Knights who rises to become Grand Master of the Order, only to lead its army to deliberate defeat in revenge for his homeland. Written while Mickiewicz lived in exile in Russia, the poem was read as a coded call to resist foreign rule and gave Polish the word "wallenrodyzm" for patriotic deception. Both poems are in Polish and remain among the most widely read and studied works of Polish literature.

Excerpt
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