History of Polish Literature, Updated edition

Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) was born in Lithuania and was Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1980 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

• Preface to Second EditionIntroductionI. The Middle AgesBACKGROUND INFORMATIONLITERATURE IN LATINLITERATURE IN POLISHII. The Fifteenth Century: The Late Middle AgesBACKGROUND INFORMATIONLITERATURE IN LATIN-PROSELITERATURE IN POLISHPoetryProseIII. Humanism and Reformation: The Sixteenth Centuryand the Beginning of the Seventeenth CenturyBACKGROUND INFORMATIONLITERATURE IN LATINProsePoetryLITERATURE IN POLISHThe New Book MarketEncyclopedias and Picturesque ReportsThe History of Polish .(iteratureLukasz GornickiMikolaj RejJan KochanowskiOther Lyric PoetsDescriptive and Satirical PoetryPolemical ProseThe TheaterWRITINGS IN OTHER LANGUAGESIV. The Seventeenth Century: Counter Reformationand the BaroqueBACKGROUND INFORMATIONLITERATURE IN LATINLITERATURE IN POLISHLyric Poetry of the First Half of theSeventeenth CenturyPoets of Baroque ConceitsMoralistic and Satiric PoetrySarmatian Epic PoetryProseThe TheaterV. The First Half of the Eighteenth Century-The "Saxon Night"BACKGROUND INFORMATIONPOETRYTHE PRECURSORS OF CHANGEVI. The Second Half of the Eighteenth Century-The EnlightenmentBACKGROUND INFORMATIONTHE THEATERMEN OF LETTERSSENTIMENTAL POETSTHE REFORMERSTHE INCREDIBLE POTOCKIVII. RomanticismBACKGROUND INFORMATIONCLASSICISM AND PRE-ROMANTICISMADAM MICKIEWICZJULIUSZ SLOWACKIZYGMUNT KRASINSKITHE UKRAINIAN SCHOOLALEKSANDER FREDROPROSE IN THE ROMANTIC PERIODHISTORIANS AND PHILOSOPHERSSTORY OF A FAMILYCYPRIAN NORWIDVIII. PositivismBACKGROUND INFORMATIONTHE POSITIVISTSTHE KRAKOW SCHOOLNATURALISMBOLESLAW PRUSELIZA ORZESZKOWHENRYK SIENKIEWICZOTHER PROSE WRITERSPOETRYIX. Young PolandBACKGROUND INFORMATIONTHE INITIATORSPOETRYLeopold StaffBoleslaw Le§mianTHE THEATERStanislaw WyspiaiiskiNaturalistic and Psychological DramaA NEW OPPOSITION TO THE "MODERNA"IN THE SATIRICAL VEINNOVELISTSStefan ZeromskiWladyslaw ReymontWadaw BerentCRITICISM AND PHILOSOPHYStanislaw BrzozowskiX. Independent Poland: 1918-1939BACKGROUND INFORMATIONPOETRY"Skamander"Revolutionary PoetsThe First VanguardToward the Second VanguardTHE THEATERStanislaw Ignacy WitkiewiczTHE NOVEL AND THE SHORT STORYWitold GombrowiczTHE ESSAY AND INTERMEDIARY GENRESXI. World War II and the First Twenty Years ofPeople's PolandBACKGROUND INFORMATIONPOSTWAR LITERATUREGENERAL CHARACTERISTICSPoetryProseThe TheaterThe Essay and Intermediary GenresEmigre LiteratureEpilogueOn Polish VersificationSelected BibliographyIndex