Includes bibliographical references (pages 536-548).

The Middle Ages: BACKGROUND INFORMATION -- LITERATURE IN LATIN -- LITERATURE IN POLISH ; The Fifteenth Century: The Late Middle Ages: BACKGROUND INFORMATION -- LITERATURE IN LATIN-PROSE -- LITERATURE IN POLISH: Poetry -- Prose ; Humanism and Reformation: The Sixteenth Century and the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century: BACKGROUND INFORMATION -- LITERATURE IN LATIN: Prose -- Poetry -- LITERATURE IN POLISH: The New Book Market -- Encyclopedias and Picturesque Reports -- The History of Polish Literature: Lukasz Gornicki -- Mikolaj Rej -- Jan Kochanowski -- Other Lyric Poets -- Descriptive and Satirical Poetry -- Polemical Prose -- The Theater -- WRITINGS IN OTHER LANGUAGES -- The Seventeenth Century: Counter Reformation and the Baroque : BACKGROUND INFORMATION -- LITERATURE IN LATIN -- LITERATURE IN POLISH -- Lyric Poetry of the First Half of the Seventeenth Century: Poets of Baroque Conceits -- Moralistic and Satiric Poetry -- Sarmatian Epic Poetry -- Prose -- The Theater -- The First Half of the Eighteenth Century: The "Saxon Night -- The Second Half of the Eighteenth Century: The Enlightenment : THE THEATER -- MEN OF LETTERS -- SENTIMENTAL POETS -- THE REFORMERS -- THE INCREDIBLE POTOCKI -- Romanticism : BACKGROUND INFORMATION -- CLASSICISM AND PRE-ROMANTICISM -- ADAM MICKIEWICZ -- JULIUSZ SLOWACKI -- ZYGMUNT KRASINSKI -- THE UKRAINIAN SCHOOL --

ALEKSANDER FREDRO -- PROSE IN THE ROMANTIC PERIOD -- HISTORIANS AND PHILOSOPHERS -- STORY OF A FAMILY -- CYPRIAN NORWID -- Positivism : BACKGROUND INFORMATION -- THE POSITIVISTS -- THE KRAKOW SCHOOL -- NATURALISM -- BOLESLAW PRUS -- ELIZA ORZESZKOWA -- HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ -- OTHER PROSE WRITERS -- POETRY -- Young Poland : BACKGROUND INFORMATION -- THE INITIATORS -- POETRY -- Leopold Staff -- Boleslaw Lesmian -- The History of Polish Literature : THE THEATER -- Stanislaw Wyspianski -- Naturalistic and Psychological Drama -- A NEW OPPOSITION TO THE MODERNA -- IN THE SATIRICAL VEIN -- NOVELISTS -- Stefan Zeromski -- Wladyslaw Reymont -- Waclaw Berent -- CRITICISM AND PHILOSOPHY -- Stanislaw Brzozowski -- Independent Poland: 1918--1939 : BACKGROUND INFORMATION -- POETRY -- "Skamander" -- Revolutionary Poets -- The First Vanguard -- Toward the Second Vanguard -- THE THEATER -- Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz -- THE NOVEL AND THE SHORT STORY -- Witold Gombrowicz -- THE ESSAY AND INTERMEDIARY GENRES -- World War II and the First Twenty years of People's Poland : BACKGROUND INFORMATION -- POSTWAR LITERATURE -- GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS -- Poetry -- Prose -- The Theater -- The Essay and Intermediary Genres -- Émigré Literature

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