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Poland’s Angry Romantic: Two Poems and a Play by Juliusz Słowacki
Author(s): Peter Cochran (Author, Editor)
- Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Publication Date: 30 Jun. 2009
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 295 pages
- ISBN-10: 1443809802
- ISBN-13: 9781443809801
Book Description
Juliusz Słowacki is one of Poland’s most important writers, but his poetry and plays are little known in the West. This book provides a long-overdo, much-needed introduction to him. It contains his popular play Balladina, his meditative poem Agamemnon’s Tomb, and his hilarious mock-epic Beniowski, in the style of Byron’s Don Juan.
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About the Author
PETER COCHRAN edits the Newstead Byron Society Review, and the works of Byron on the International Byron Society website. His most recent book for CSP is “Romanticism” – and Byron. BILL JOHNSTON won the 2008 Found in Translation award for Tadeusz Różewicz’s new poems. He has translated Witold Gombrowicz, Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Stefan Żeromski, Magdalena Tulli, and numerous other authors. He teaches at Indiana University. MIROSŁAWA MODRZEWSKA is a Lecturer in British Literature at the Institute of English of Gdańsk University, Poland. She has written extensively on British and Polish Romanticism with particular reference to Byron. CATHERINE O’NEIL is Associate Professor of Russian at the United States Naval Academy. She is Co-Managing Editor of The Pushkin Review and author of the book With Shakespeare’s Eyes: Pushkin’s Creative Appropriation of Shakespeare.
