The senses in the Crimean Sonnets by Adam Mickiewicz
Journal: The Repository of University in Bialystok (University in Bialystok)
Year: 2025

The paper analyses the sphere of Adam Mickiewicz’s sensual sensibility in the Crimean Sonnets (1826), which were written after the journey of the greatest Polish Romantic poet to the Crimea in 1825. The poet began exercising his sensibility during his Vilnius period, as revealed in the sensual Ballads and Romances (1822). The poetic design of revising the use of the senses involved supplementing the sense of sight with a spiritual spectrum. Following Shakespeare, Mickiewicz advocates looking fro