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CONTENTS
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THE ROMANTIC LITERATURE OF POLAND IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
(1886)

POINTS OF CONTACT IN POLISH AND DANISH LITERATURE

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I. Tendencies Common to All European Literatures—Peculiar Features—Retrospect—Kochanowski—Skarga—Jesuitism—French Philosophy—Rationalism
192
II. Polish Romanticism Determined by the Character of the People, by European Romanticism and the Political Situation—Special Points of View for the Antithesis of Classic and Romantic—Worship of Napoleon and Byron—Relation to Shakespeare and Dante—Influence of Emigrant Life on the Sentiment of Writers
199
III. Brodzinski, the Pioneer of Romanticism—Popular Ballads—The Ukrainian Poets: Malczewski, Zaleski, Goszcynski
215
IV. Mickiewicz and Goethe—Faris and the Ode to Youth—Youth of Mickiewicz—Mickiewicz and Pushkin
224
V. The Political Situation Determines the Manner of Treating all Subjects, the Point of View for Love and Hate, Maternal and Filial Emotions, the Relation between the Individual and the People, between Genius and the Surrounding World, between Emotion and Reason, Relation to Religion and Philosophy
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