Adam Mickiewicz, Sonety krymskie [Crimean sonnets]

Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles)

Ed. by Roman Koropeckyj, University of California, Los Angeles
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.8.3: Polish Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Ewa M. Thompson (Rice University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1826

Places

Poland (Country of Origin)
Russia (Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Sonnet

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Sonety krymskie

[

Crimean Sonnets

] is a sequence of eighteen sonnets by Poland’s national poet Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855). Published in Moscow in 1826 together with a cycle of erotic (

vel

Odessa) sonnets under the omnibus title

Sonety

, the work is a programmatic exercise in romantic Orientalism that draws unabashedly on, among others, Byron

’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

, Silvestre de Sacy’s

Chrestomathie arabe

, Alexander Pushkin’s

Fountain of Bakhchisarai

, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall’s

Geschichte der schönen Redekünste Persiens,

and

One Thousand and One Nights.

And it is to Goethe’s

West-östlicher Divan

that Mickiewicz turns for the epigraph to his own cycle: “Wer den Dichter will verstehen, / Muss in Dichter’s Lande gehen” (

Dzieła

1:233). The Orientalist style…

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Citation: Koropeckyj, Roman. "Sonety krymskie". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 02 November 2021 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=33995, accessed 26 April 2024.]

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