Maurycy Mochnacki

Maurycy Mochnacki (born September 13, 1803, Bojaniec, Russian Empire [now Boyanets, Ukraine]—died December 20, 1834, Auxerre, France) was an early Polish Romantic literary critic who passionately advocated Romanticism and was the first Polish critic to define the part literature might play in the spiritual and political life of society. As a student at the University of Warsaw, Mochnacki became interested in theories of poetry and eventually headed the so-called school of Warsaw Romantic critics. In...