Forefathers’ Eve

…two and four of his Dziady (Forefather’s Eve), in which he combined elements of folklore with a story of tragic love to create a new kind of Romantic drama. While in Russia he visited Crimea in 1825, and, soon after, he published his cycle of sonnets Sonety Krymskie (1826; Crimean…

…and four of Dziady (Forefathers’ Eve), in which he combined folklore and mystic atmosphere to create a new kind of Romantic drama. Mickiewicz wrote his greatest works after 1824, when, owing to his membership in a student organization that practiced patriotic activities, he was deported to Russia and then…