Buy this book on-line MICKIEWICZ,ADAM: : Poems - translated mainly by Jack LindsayLONDON.SYLVAN PRESS,1957.
UK,12mo paper wraps,1st edn.VG.No owner inscrptn internally,however,previous owner's inverted,ink written name+date, to foot of rear wrap.Beige paper wraps with brown ink printed pictorial illustrated upper wrap and lettering to spine/backstrip and rear wrap,chain-laid paper pages and sewn signatures,a little shelf-worn with miniscule chipping, creasing with miniscule loss - due to yapped edges.Small split,nick to both top
+bottom 1/2" of left-hand,upper wrap's spine/backstrip edges.Six original b/w wood-engravings:1 apiece,chapter-head and chapter tail-piece,3 other fuller page illus, plus one of these illustrations being repeated to the upper wrap,all by Denis Postle.[The illustrations in this volume are from the prize- winning entries of the Mickiewicz Centenary Competition,set by the Polish Cultural Institute,London for illustrations for an English edition.] Top+fore-edges slightly
aged/tanned - as usual/normal - with some minimal foxing/spotting.12mo,3-64pp [paginated] + title-page,contents list/
table [unpaginated],6pp foreword,23 poems (7 of which are sonnets),a scene from The Forefather's Eve(III):Patriots in Jail.
Translated mainly by Jack Lindsay,with the exception of the sonnets - by Doris Dur,and Dorothea Prall Radin for the six others.Contents very good internally,with
minimal foxing,bright,tight and clean.
Adam Mickiewicz(1798-1855),the greatest poet of Poland,is a great poet by any world-standard;but lack of adequate translation has left his works little known in Britain.
This book,produced on the centenary of his death, exemplifies his main characteristics and should at long last make his name known to wide circles of readers.He lived through stormy days,and he packed into his work the whole life of his people at a moment of deep-going change.He belonged to the Romantic Epoch and had all its qualities of emotional ferment and aspiration;but at the same time he owned a classic breadth and balance.The result was a poetry of the highest order, with the outstanding achievement in 'Pan Tadeusz',an epic work
of realistic force,deep insight,wit, lyrical charm,narrative energy and rich characterisation which George Brandes persuasively called "the only successful epic" of the 19thC.
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