Julia i Zofia. „Lucius” Josepha von Eichendorffa i „Quidam” Cypriana Norwida
Julia and Zofia. Joseph von Eichendorff’s “Lucius” and Cyprian Norwid’s “Quidam”

Summary/Abstract: The two narrative long poems, Eichendorff’s “Lucius” (1857) and Norwid’s “Quidam” (written 1857, published 1863) present common traces—contrasts and similarities—without any direct genetic contact. Both were written by Catholic poets at almost the same time in a period of fluid literary currents, they belong to the large field of 19th century narrative poetry, they tell, each in its own way, the stories of some ancient world men and women impressed or unconsciously influenced by growing Christianity, and last but not least, their portrayal of ancient Rome contains critical commentaries on the then modern European (and also German or Polish) political and social realities.

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