Pan Tadeusz
Title page of the first edition | |
| Author | Adam Mickiewicz |
|---|---|
| Original title | Pan Tadeusz, czyli ostatni zajazd na Litwie. Historia szlachecka z roku 1811 i 1812 we dwunastu księgach wierszem |
| Translator | Maude Ashurst Biggs, Watson Kirkconnell, George Rapall Noyes, Kenneth R. Mackenzie, Marcel Weyland, Bill Johnston |
| Language | Polish |
| Genre | Epic poem |
| Set in | Duchy of Warsaw, 1811–12 |
| Publisher | Aleksander Jełowicki |
Publication date | 28 June 1834 |
| Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1885 |
| 891.8516 | |
| LC Class | PG7158.M5 P312 |
Original text | Pan Tadeusz, czyli ostatni zajazd na Litwie. Historia szlachecka z roku 1811 i 1812 we dwunastu księgach wierszem at Polish Wikisource |
| Translation | Pan Tadeusz at Wikisource |
| Pan Tadeusz | |
|---|---|
| Form | Epic poem |
| Meter | Polish alexandrine |
| Rhyme scheme | in couplets |
| Lines | 10,000 |
Pan Tadeusz (full title: Sir Thaddeus, or the Last Foray in Lithuania: A Nobility's Tale of the Years 1811–1812, in Twelve Books of Verse) is an epic poem by the Polish poet, writer, translator and philosopher Adam Mickiewicz. The book, written in Polish alexandrines, was first published by Aleksander Jełowicki on 28 June 1834 in Paris. It is deemed one of the last great epic poems in European literature.
Pan Tadeusz, Poland's national epic, is compulsory reading in Polish schools and has been translated into 33 languages. A film version, directed by Andrzej Wajda, was released in 1999. In 2014 Pan Tadeusz was incorporated into Poland's list in the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme.