1. Apollo Korzeniowski was a Polish poet, playwright, translator, clandestine political activist, and father of Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad.
15 Facts About Apollo Korzeniowski
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Apollo Korzeniowski was born on 21 February 1820 in the Imperial Russian village of Honoratka, then in Lypovets Uyezd, Kiev Governorate, now Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine.
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Apollo Korzeniowski was the son of Teodor Korzeniowski, an 1831 Polish Army captain, an impoverished nobleman who made a living running leaseholds, and Julia nee Dyakiewicz.
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Together with his mother-in-law, Apollo Korzeniowski leased the village of Derebczynka.
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Apollo Korzeniowski overcame this influence only in the final poem of the cycle, "Forethunder", into which his earlier preparations for the unrealized uprising introduced revolutionary accents.
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In 1854 Apollo Korzeniowski wrote his chef d'oeuvre, the drama Komedia, its beginning parts modeled after Aleksandr Griboyedov's comedy, Gorie ot uma.
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In 1858 Apollo Korzeniowski published a second drama, For a Pretty Penny, which was to some extent a continuation of Comedy.
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Apart from original work, Apollo Korzeniowski did translations, including Alfred de Vigny's 1835 drama Chatterton and several works by Victor Hugo: the dramas Hernani and Marion Delorme, and fragments of the poem collection, La Legende des siecles.
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At the turn of the 1850s and 1860s, Apollo Korzeniowski engaged in sociopolitical activity.
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In May 1861, hearing of a patriotic movement developing in Warsaw, Apollo Korzeniowski traveled from Zhytomyr to Warsaw.
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Apollo Korzeniowski worked to organize a boycott of municipal elections that were scheduled to begin in Warsaw on 23 September 1861.
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Apollo Korzeniowski produced a memoir on "Poland and Muscovy" ; a fragment of a play, No Rescue ; and a "Study of Drama in the Works of Shakespeare".
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Apollo Korzeniowski translated Charles Dickens' Hard Times and Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors.
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Apollo Korzeniowski was long remembered merely as the father of English-language novelist Joseph Conrad.
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About two weeks before his death, Apollo Korzeniowski supervised the burning of all the manuscripts of his own work that he had in his possession.