In her study the author tries to show the influence of philosophy of Prodikos ofKeos on the Cyropedia by Xenophon. Prodikos, a sophist, held the opinion that prowess (areté) is some knowledge which can be acquired since ...

The essay is a propaedeutic attempt of a new look at the lyrics of Mickiewicz written in Lausanne. Putting aside the view that those lyrics were a rough version, the author considers the six poems as a complete, precise ...

Disputes about the model of drama In the 19th century followed a non-typical course in Poland. They began among the writers' of transitional formation (F. Wężyk, K. Brodziński, J. Korzeniowski) with attempts to loosen ...

More than four centuries of English history are presented in Shakespeare's English history plays. From the chronological point of view he started "his" national history from the reign of king John. Two tetralogies embrace ...

In the first part of the paper the author shows the image of Alexander the Great in the ancient biographies by Quintus Curtlus Rufus and Plutarch of Chaeroneia, as well as their reception in Mediaeval literature. ...

The subject of the study is tracing analogies between the poetry of Miłosz and the production of Polish baroque poets, e.g. the attitude of a learned artist (artlfex doctus), the reasons for his interest In baroque, ...

The paper presents the characteristics, in form of an exploration, of reaction of the Warsaw liberal-progressive camp, expressed by its most outstanding representatives, on the events of the conflict betweon Serbia, ...

The article is an excerpt from a study presenting the history of poetic narrative in Poland and a part of a larger whole discussing the early-romantic reception of Scott and Byron. The problem of influence of both poets ...