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Quo Vadis, Idealist? Romantic Politics in Adam Mickiewicz’s Less Apparent Poems
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This article analyses the political engagement evident in Adam Mickiewicz’s work, specifically during his Russian and Odesa periods. It argues that Mickiewicz employed metapolitics as a deliberate strategy, embedding themes and elements of 19th-century political discourse within his poems, and particularly within the social spaces he inhabited. Salon settings, understood within broader contexts, functioned as sites of power against which the poet juxtaposed his own concepts, which would later manifest more fully in his subsequent works. This analysis focuses on Mickiewicz’s pre-Parisian period, examining fragments of Forefathers’ Eve, Part IV, the Odesa Sonnets, and other poems from the Russian period. These works are considered as a form of political propaedeutics, reflecting societal and national concerns that would become central to his journalistic writings, while appearing less frequently in his fictional works following his emigration.
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politics, romanticism, idealism, Mickiewicz, Odesa SonnetsDetails
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