Who is Juliusz Slowacki

Juliusz Słowacki (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjuljuʂ swɔˈvat͡ski]; French: Jules Slowacki; 4 September 1809 – 3 April 1849) was a Polish Romantic poet. He is considered one of the "Three Bards" of Polish literature — a major figure in the Polish Romantic period, and the father of modern Polish drama. His works often feature elements of Slavic pagan traditions, Polish history, mysticism and orientalism. His style includes the employment of neologisms and irony. His primary genre was the drama, but he also wrote lyric poetry. His most popular works include the dramas Kordian and Balladyna and the poems Beniowski, Testament mój and Anhelli.

Słowacki spent his youth in the "Stolen Lands", in Kremenets (Polish: Krzemieniec; now in Ukraine) and Vilnius (Polish: Wilno, in Lithuan...
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Juliusz Slowacki Poems

• Anhelli - Chapter 1
  Exiles came to the land of Siberia, and having chosen a broad site they built a
  wooden house that they might dwell together in concord and brotherly love; and
  there were of them about a thousand men of various stations in life.
  ...
• Anhelli - Chapter 7
  And the Shaman said : 'Lo, now we shall show no more miracles,
  nor the power of God that is in us, but we shall weep,
  for we have come unto people who see not the sun.
  ...
• Anhelli - Chapter 6
  e fishermen and set out into the wilderness.
  
  And the moon was still high when they came to the hut of an aged man,
  who greeted the Shaman like an old friend. He was one of the exiles of Bar, the last one....
• Anhelli - Chapter 10
  of the Shaman, had begun to quarrel among themselves,
  and had divided into three groups ;
  but each of these groups thought of the deliverance of the fatherland.
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• Pan Beniowski - Final Part Of Canto Five
  Surging like a vast current of salmon or sheatfish,
  Coiling up and down like an iron serpent
  That rears now its torso, now its head,
  The armed horsemen breast the prairie grass. -- ...

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Comments about Juliusz Slowacki

• Infinita_fiori: trinkets you are still fooled by trinkets; although i know these words won’t resonate long in your heart – where thought does not stay for even an hour. i say this because i am sad – and i myself am full of guilt. juliusz słowacki, 1809-1849 tr. catherine o’neil
• Sscjusa: on october 16, 1978, the prophecy foretold in “the slavic pope” by polish poet juliusz slowacki was fulfilled: behold, the slavic pope is coming, a brother of the people. behold, he already pours the world’s balm on our breasts....
• Delicatesteven: ↳ lilla weneda by juliusz słowacki it's a twisted novel full of crime, lust for power and strong female characters. bloody, dark and mysterious. reminds me of shakespeare's books
• Delicatesteven: ↳ lilla weneda by juliusz słowacki it's a twisted novel full of crime, lust for power and strong female characters. bloody, dark and mysterious. reminds me of shakespeare's books
• Tara_ruru: there are many examples of this in literature. joseph konrad, isaac babel, juliusz słowacki, leopold masoch, bruno schulz, shalom aleichem — all of them were born in ukrainan lands and wrote in different languages. so, ukraine used to be very multilingual.

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