Ballady i romanse

Ballads and Romances

Author

Adam Mickiewicz

Language

Polish

Year

1822

Country

Lithuania, Russian Empire

Genre

Poetry Collection

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Ballads and Romances is a collection of ballads written by Polish Romantic-era poet Adam Mickiewicz in 1822 and first published in Vilnius, Russian Empire, as part of the first volume of his Poezje ("Poetry"). The publication of the collection is widely seen as the main manifesto of Polish romanticism as well as the beginning of the development of the ballad genre in Polish literature. However, Ballads and Romances preserve some of the traditions of earlier literary genres popular in Poland such as duma, dumka and idyll.