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Also Known As Adam Bernard Mickiewicz
Born December 24, 1798 • Russia
Died November 26, 1855 (aged 56)
Notable Works “Forefathers’ Eve” • “Konrad Wallenrod” • “Księgi narodu polskiego i pielgrzymstwa polskiego” • “Pan Tadeusz” • “Poezye”
Movement / Style Romanticism

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Słowacki, Juliusz
Juliusz Słowacki
Polish author
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Antoni Malczewski
Polish poet
Ary Scheffer: Zygmunt Krasiński
Zygmunt Krasiński
Polish poet and dramatist
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Jørgen Engebretsen Moe
Norwegian author
William Blake
William Blake
English engraver, artist, and poet
Lord Byron
Lord Byron
British poet
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
English author
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Russian author
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
English poet
Keats, John
John Keats
British poet
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott
Scottish writer
Lermontov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lermontov
Russian writer
Lamartine, detail of an oil painting by François Gérard; in the Musée National de Versailles et des Trianons
Alphonse de Lamartine
French poet, historian, and statesman
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Théophile Gautier
French author
Thomas Chatterton.
Thomas Chatterton
British poet
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Alessandro Manzoni, oil painting by Francesco Hayez; in the Brera Gallery, Milan.
Alessandro Manzoni
Italian author

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