The year 2022 has been designated the Year of Romanticism in Poland.
An even two hundred years have passed since the first publication of Adam Mickiewicz’s Ballads and Romances – a collection of lyrics which has the same significance for Polish literature as Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads has for the English.
Poems of love, the supernatural, and the exotic, Mickiewicz’s first volume of poetry achieved a level of sublimity that immediately set him at the head of all Polish writers – a position he sustained throughout his life with his lyrical, narrative, dramatic, and epic poetry, and which he continues to hold today. In cooperation with the Polish Cultural Institute of London, Glagoslav brings out an anniversary edition of Mickiewicz’s Ballads and Romances in the English translation of Charles S. Kraszewski.
The collection includes all the poems of the 1822 edition, plus the ballads added shortly before the poet’s death to the 1852, Leipzig edition.
This publication is generously supported by the Polish Cultural Institute in London.
Table of Content
INTRODUCTION: Dear Maryla. Dear You. On the Universal Application of Mickiewicz’s Ballads and Romances7
From Ballads and Romances (Wilno, 1822)
1. THE PRIMROSE48
2. ROMANTICISM50
3. ŚWITEŹ53
4. THE ŚWITEZIANKA60
5. THE LITTLE FISH66
6. PAPA’S RETURN71
7. MARYLA’S MOUND74
8. TO MY FRIENDS78
9. THIS I LIKE80
10. THE GLOVE85
11. MRS TWARDOWSKA87
12. TUKAJ or TESTS OF FRIENDSHIP92
13. THE LILIES101
14. THE MINSTREL112
Poems added to Ballads and Romances (Leipzig, 1852)
15. THE LURKERS120
16. THE ESCAPE122
17. THE THREE BUDRYSES128
18. THE RENEGADE130
BIBLIOGRAPHY132
ABOUT THE AUTHOR134
ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR135
About the author
Charles S. Kraszewski (b. 1962) is a poet and translator, creative in both English and Polish. He is the author of three volumes of original verse in English (Diet of Nails; Beast; Chanameed), and one in Polish (Hallo, Sztokholm). He also authored a satirical novel Accomplices, You Ask? (San Francisco: Montag, 2021). He translates from Polish, Czech and Slovak into English, and from English and Spanish into Polish. He is a member of the Union of Polish Writers Abroad (London) and of the Association of Polish Writers (SPP, Kraków). In 2022 he was awarded the Gloria Artis medal (III Class) by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Poland.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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