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The Three Bards are the national poets of Polish Romantic literature. The term is almost exclusively used to denote Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki and Zygmunt Krasiński. Of the three, Mickiewicz is
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Zygmunt Krasiński
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Zygmunt Krasiński
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Count Napoleon Stanisław Adam Feliks Zygmunt Krasiński was a Polish poet traditionally ranked after Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Słowacki as one of Poland's Three Bards – the Romantic poets who influen
Three Bards
…national poets of Polish Romantic literature. The term is almost exclusively used to denote Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855), Juliusz Słowacki (1809–1849) and Zygmunt Krasiński (1812–1859). Of the three, Mickiewicz is considered the most influential and Krasiński the least. The Three Bards were thought not only to voice Polish…
Photograph by Karol Beyer
Krasiński, aged 7, by Louis-René Letronne (1819)
Joanna Bobrowa, one of Krasiński's romantic interests