« De la poésie polonaise » d’Auguste Lacaussade et Le cimetière du Père Lachaise de Juliusz Słowacki
‘De la poésie polonaise’ by Auguste Lacaussade and Le cimetière du Père Lachaise by Juliusz Słowacki

Summary/Abstract: Auguste Lacaussade, in his article ‘De la poésie polonaise’, has identified the relevant features of Polish romantic poetry: the originality and harmony of the language, the favourite themes (silence, shadow, ghosts, and the tendency to rise above the real) and the fundamental dominants (mysticism, patriotism, suffering and the pain of expatriation). All of these elements can be found in the poem Le cimetière du Père Lachaise by Juliusz Słowacki. It is obvious that the French poet was able to reach a wider and more general point of view, but with a literary insight uncommon at the time.

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