The History of Polish Literature, Updated EditionThis book is a survey of Polish letters and culture from its beginnings to modern times. Czeslaw Milosz updated this edition in 1983 and added an epilogue to bring the discussion up to date. |
Contents
The Middle Ages | 3 |
The Late Middle Ages | 14 |
The Sixteenth Century | 25 |
LITERATURE IN POLISH | 48 |
Counter Reformation | 111 |
The First Half of the Eighteenth Century | 153 |
The Second Half of the Eighteenth Century | 159 |
Romanticism | 195 |
Stern Anatol 386 | 386 |
Straszewicz Czesław 523524 | 408 |
World War II and the First Twenty Years | 441 |
Strindberg August 329 358 | 470 |
Striptease 1961 | 514 |
Stryjkowski Julian | 529 |
Epilogue | 533 |
Tango 1965 514515 | 539 |
Stendhal Marie Henri Beyle 207 | 207 |
Positivism | 281 |
Young Poland | 322 |
19181939 | 380 |
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