The Sonnets: Including The Erotic Sonnets, The Crimean Sonnets, and Uncollected Sonnets

Adam Mickiewicz

The Sonnets: Including The Erotic Sonnets, The Crimean Sonnets, and Uncollected Sonnets
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Glagoslav Publications B.V.
Country
Published
1 February 2019
Pages
190
ISBN
9781911414919

The Sonnets: Including The Erotic Sonnets, The Crimean Sonnets, and Uncollected Sonnets

Adam Mickiewicz

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Because the poetry of Adam Mickiewicz is so closely identified with the history of the Polish nation, one often reads him as an institution, rather than a real person. In the Crimean and Erotic Sonnets of the national bard, we are presented with the fresh, real, and striking poetry of a living, breathing man of flesh and blood. Mickiewicz proved to be a master of Petrarchan form. His Erotic Sonnets chronicle the development of a love affair from its first stirrings to its disillusioning denouement, at times in a bitingly sardonic tone. The Crimean Sonnets, a verse account of his journeys through the beautiful Crimean Peninsula, constitute the most perfect cycle of descriptive sonnets since du Bellay. The Sonnets of Adam Mickiewicz are given in the original Polish, in facing-page format, with English verse translations by Charles S. Kraszewski. Along with the entirety of the Crimean and Erotic Sonnets, other loose sonnets by Mickiewicz are included, which provide the reader with the most comprehensive collection to date of Mickiewicz’s sonneteering. Fronted with a critical introduction, The Sonnets of Adam Mickiewicz also contain generous textual notes by the poet and the translator.

Translated from the Polish and introduced by Charles S. Kraszewski.

This book has been published with the support of the ©POLAND Translation Program.

Publishers Maxim Hodak & Max Mendor.

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