Powołanie i sens polskiej emigracji według twórców polskiej literatury romantycznej
Vocation and Sense of Polish Emigration According to the Authors of Polish Romantic Literature

Summary/Abstract: The article describes the history of Polish political and independence emigration after 1831. In the history of Poland, this extraordinary cultural phenomenon has been called the Great Emigration, because of almost the whole elite of Polish nation went abroad. After the third partition of Poland which was made by three superpowers, Russia, Prussia and Austria in 1795, Poles tried to fight armed for independence many times. One of those insurrections was November Uprising in 1830, which was directed against Russia. The war ended in a resounding defeat for the Poles and participants in uprising had to flee from persecutions of tsar of Russia. The article is an attempt to describe the literature of the Great Emigration. In those texts Polish Romantic writers tried to understand sense of suffering of Polish nation and mission of Poles and Poland in the end of eighteenth and in nineteenth century.

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