Pan Tadeusz

Pan Tadeusz
Title page of the first edition
AuthorAdam Mickiewicz
Original titlePan Tadeusz, czyli ostatni zajazd na Litwie. Historia szlachecka z roku 1811 i 1812 we dwunastu księgach wierszem
TranslatorMaude Ashurst Biggs, Watson Kirkconnell, George Rapall Noyes, Kenneth R. Mackenzie, Marcel Weyland, Bill Johnston
LanguagePolish
GenreEpic poem
Set inRussian Partition, 1811–12
PublisherAleksander Jełowicki
Publication date
28 June 1834
Publication placeFrance
Published in English
1885
891.8516
LC ClassPG7158.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
TranslationPan Tadeusz at Wikisource
Pan Tadeusz
FormEpic poem
MeterPolish alexandrine
Rhyme schemein couplets
Lines10,000

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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  1. ^ "The Historical House: Pan Tadeusz". Retrieved 2019-09-15.
  2. ^ Literatura polska. Przewodnik encyklopedyczny (in Polish). Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. 1984. ISBN 83-01-05368-2.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "Pan Tadeusz w Google Doodle. Pierwsza publikacja książki obchodzi 185 urodziny". Retrieved 2019-09-15.
  6. ^ ""Pan Tadeusz" na Polskiej Liście UNESCO". Retrieved 2019-09-15.