 Title page of the first edition | |
| Author | Adam Mickiewicz |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Pan Tadeusz | |
|---|---|
| Form | Epic poem |
| Meter | Polish alexandrine |
| Rhyme scheme | in couplets |
| Lines | 10,000 |
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[a][b]) 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]
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]
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- ^ "The Historical House: Pan Tadeusz". Retrieved 2019-09-15.
- ^ Literatura polska. Przewodnik encyklopedyczny (in Polish). Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. 1984. ISBN 83-01-05368-2.
- ^ Czesław Miłosz, The history of Polish literature. IV. Romanticism, p. 228. Google Books. University of California Press, 1983. ISBN 0-520-04477-0. Retrieved October 7, 2011.
- ^ "Pan Tadeusz Poem: Five things you need to know about this epic Polish masterpiece". Archived from the original on 2022-05-24. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
- ^ "Pan Tadeusz w Google Doodle. Pierwsza publikacja książki obchodzi 185 urodziny". Retrieved 2019-09-15.
- ^ ""Pan Tadeusz" na Polskiej Liście UNESCO". Retrieved 2019-09-15.