Adam Mickiewicz Biography | Poet

Adam Bernard Mickiewicz (listen)) (December 24, 1798 – November 26, 1855) was a Polish (Polish-Lithuanian) poet, publisher and political writer of the Romantic period. One of the primary representatives of the Polish Romanticism era, a national poet of Poland, he is seen as one of Poland's Three Bards and the greatest poet in all of Polish literature. He is also considered one of the greatest Slavic language or European poets. He has been described as a Slavonic bard. He was a prominent creator of Romantic drama in Poland. compared both at home and in Western Europe to Byron and Goethe. Polish national poet essayist translator publicist and political writer