SOURCE: "The Blossoming of Romantic Poetry of the Time of the Emigration," in Polish Encyclopædia, Vol. I, 1926. Reprint by Arno Press & The New York Times, 1972, pp. 384-408.

In the excerpt below, Szyjkowski presents an overview of the chief works of Słowacki and Krasiński.

Among the Polish emigrants, there was [besides Mickiewicz] yet another master of Polish romantic poetry: Julius Słowacki. Born in the year 1809, he was not yet 23 years old when the Emigration took place.

He was brought up under very different circumstances from those which had presided over Mickiewicz's education. He was an only son, early lost his father, who had been a dramatist and a professor at the University of Wilno. He was brought up by women, surrounded by luxury and refinement, growing rapidly like a plant in a hothouse. His mentality was a strong and manifold one, and he was wonderfully...