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Pan Tadeusz
1834 Polish epic poem by Adam Mickiewicz / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the films, see Pan Tadeusz (1928 film) and Pan Tadeusz (1999 film).
Pan Tadeusz (full title: Sir Thaddeus, or the Last Foray in Lithuania: A Nobility's Tale of the Years 1811–1812, in Twelve Books of Verse[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2]) is an epic poem by the Polish poet, writer, translator and philosopher Adam Mickiewicz. The book, written in Polish alexandrines,[1] was first published by Aleksander Jełowicki on 28 June 1834 in Paris.[2] It is deemed one of the last great epic poems in European literature.[3][4]
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Author | Adam Mickiewicz |
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Original title | Pan Tadeusz, czyli ostatni zajazd na Litwie. Historia szlachecka z roku 1811 i 1812 we dwunastu księgach wierszem |
Translator | Maude Ashurst Biggs, Watson Kirkconnell, George Rapall Noyes, Kenneth R. Mackenzie, Marcel Weyland, Bill Johnston |
Language | Polish |
Genre | Epic poem |
Set in | Russian Partition, 1811–12 |
Publisher | Aleksander Jełowicki |
Publication date | 28 June 1834 |
Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1885 |
891.8516 | |
LC Class | PG7158.M5 P312 |
Original text | Pan Tadeusz, czyli ostatni zajazd na Litwie. Historia szlachecka z roku 1811 i 1812 we dwunastu księgach wierszem at Polish Wikisource |
Translation | Pan Tadeusz at Wikisource |
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Pan Tadeusz | |
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Form | Epic poem |
Meter | Polish alexandrine |
Rhyme scheme | in couplets |
Lines | 10,000 |
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Pan Tadeusz, Poland's national epic, is compulsory reading in Polish schools and has been translated into 33 languages.[5] A film version, directed by Andrzej Wajda, was released in 1999. In 2014 Pan Tadeusz was incorporated into Poland's list in the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme.[6]