12 Facts About Polish literature

Period of Polish literature Enlightenment began in the 1730s–40s and peaked in the second half of the 18th century.

Early Polish literature Romantics were heavily influenced by other European Romantics.

Literature of the Second Polish Republic encompasses a short, though exceptionally dynamic period in Polish literary consciousness.

Much of Polish literature written during the Occupation of Poland appeared in print only after the conclusion of World War II, including books by Nalkowska, Rudnicki, Borowski and others.

Poland's pagan inhabitants certainly possessed an oral Polish literature extending to Slavic songs, legends and beliefs, but early Christian writers did not deem it worthy of mention in the obligatory Latin, and so it has perished.

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Many Polish literature writers studied abroad, and at the Krakow Academy, which became a melting pot for new ideas and currents.

Literature in the period of Polish Baroque was significantly influenced by the great popularization of Jesuit high schools, which offered education based on Latin classics as part of a preparation for a political career.

One of the leading Polish literature Enlightenment poets was Ignacy Krasicki, known locally as "the Prince of Poets" and Poland's La Fontaine, author of the first Polish literature novel called The Adventures of Mr Nicholas Wisdom ; he was a playwright, journalist, encyclopedist and translator from French and Greek.

Literature of the Second Polish Republic encompasses a short, though exceptionally dynamic period in Polish literary consciousness.

All Polish literature poets treated the concept of freedom with extreme seriousness, and many patriotic works had emerged at that time, not to mention a particular variant of a poetic cult of Pilsudski.

Much of Polish literature written during the Occupation of Poland appeared in print only after the conclusion of World War II, including books by Nalkowska, Rudnicki, Borowski and others.

Polish literature's novel was adapted into film a decade later by Wajda.