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Grażyna (poem)

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Originally published
  
1823

Genre
  
Epic poetry

Author
  
Grażyna (poem) wwwpublioplfilesproductbige0a52249054gra

Original title
  
Grażyna. Powieść litewska

Similar
  
Works by Adam Mickiewicz, Epic poetry books, Polish Language books

Grażyna is an 1823 narrative poem by Adam Mickiewicz, written in the summer of 1822 during a year-long sabbatical in Vilnius, while away from his teaching duties in Kowno (present day Kaunas). Probably his first notable work.

The poem describes the exploits of a mythical Lithuanian chieftainess Grażyna against the forces of the medieval Order of the Teutonic Knights. The woman character is believed to have been based on Mickiewicz's own sweetheart from Kowno, Karolina Kowalska. The name was originally conceived by Mickiewicz himself, having used the root of the Lithuanian adjective gražus, meaning "beautiful".

It was said by Polish writer Christien Ostrowski to have inspired Emilia Plater, a military heroine of the November 1830 Uprising.

References

Grażyna (poem) Wikipedia


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