Treasury of Love Poems by Adam Mickiewicz (miękka)

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Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855), the great poet of Poland, was born two hundred years ago. On December 24, 1798. To commemorate the event, Hippocrene Books presents this bilingual volume of his poems having love as their theme. Love, however, has many meanings, and Mickiewicz, the Romantic, was familiar with all of them. In his poems one can find a whole spectrum of human love -- for women, nature, God, the arts, friends, one's native country, and beauty or truth. As a poet Mickiewicz was equally capable of depicting the exalted passion of a Romantic youth (Gustaw of the Forefathers) and the delicate emotions of a young girl (Zosia of Pan Tadeusz); the sensual experience of a blasé lades' man of fashionable salons (sonnets), and the profound patriotic and religious feelings of a mature man. As for Romantic in general, and for Mickiewicz in particular, love is a force having an absolute dimension, a force which spans eternity and gives inner freedom and strength. Have heart and look into your heart, declared Mickiewicz in the ballad The Romantic, the poetic manifesto of his early years.