Editing Adam Mickiewicz (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Adam Mickiewicz Monument, Kraków.jpg|thumb|[[Adam Mickiewicz Monument, Kraków]], Poland]]
[[File:Pomnik Adama Mickiewicza w Warszawie 2019c.jpg|thumb|[[Adam Mickiewicz Monument, Warsaw]], Poland]]
[[File:Lvov mickiewicz.JPG|thumb|[[Adam Mickiewicz Monument, Lviv|Adam Mickiewicz Monument]], Lviv, Ukraine]]

A prime figure of the [[romanticism in Poland|Polish Romantic period]], Mickiewicz is counted as one of Poland's [[Three Bards]] (the others being [[Zygmunt Krasiński]] and [[Juliusz Słowacki]]) and the greatest poet in all [[Polish literature]].<ref name="mickiewicz"/><ref name="mickiewicz1"/><ref name="Cornis-PopeNeubauer2010"/> Mickiewicz has long been regarded as [[List of national poets#Europe|Poland's national poet]]<ref name="Adam Mickiewicz: the national poet of Poland"/><ref name="Krzyzanowski"/> and is a revered figure in [[Lithuania]].<ref name="www"/> He is also considered one of the greatest [[Slavic language|Slavic]]<ref name="PomorskaBaran1992"/> and [[Europeans|European]]<ref name="budowniczowie"/> poets. He has been described as a "Slavic bard."<ref name="fra"/> He was a leading Romantic dramatist<ref name="tm"/> and has been compared in Poland and in Europe with [[George Gordon Byron|Byron]] and [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|Goethe]].<ref name=fra/><ref name=tm/>

The works of Mickiewicz also promoted the [[Lithuanian National Revival]] and the development of national self-awareness.<ref name="MickeviciusVle">{{cite web |last1=Juzef |first1=Šostakovski |title=Adomas Mickevičius |url=https://www.vle.lt/straipsnis/adomas-mickevicius/ |website=[[Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija]] |access-date=29 October 2024 |language=lt |quote=A. Mickevičiaus kūryba skatino lietuvių tautinį judėjimą, tautinės savimonės ugdymą.}}</ref> Mickiewicz's works began to be translated into the [[Lithuanian language]] when he was still alive (e.g. [[Simonas Daukantas]], one of the pioneers of the Lithuanian National Revival, translated and retold a story ''{{lang|pl|Żywila}}'' / ''{{lang|lt|Živilė}}'' in 1822, [[Kiprijonas Nezabitauskis]] translated ''{{lang|pl|Litania pielgrzyma}}'' / ''{{lang|lt|Piligrimų litanija}}'' and it was published in Paris in ~1836, Liudvikas Adomas Jucevičius translated a [[ballad]] ''{{lang|pl|Trzech Budrysów}}'' / ''{{lang|lt|Trys Budriai}}'' in 1837).<ref name="MickeviciusVle"/> Moreover, Mickiewicz's works has influenced the pioneers of the Lithuanian National Revival in the 19th century (e.g. [[Antanas Baranauskas]], [[Jonas Basanavičius]], [[Stasys Matulaitis]], [[Mykolas Biržiška]], [[Petras Vileišis]]).<ref name="MickeviciusVle"/> Furthermore, the beginning of [[Vincas Kudirka]]'s ''[[Tautiška giesmė]]'' (1898), the national anthem of Lithuania since 1919 and since 1988, is a paraphrase of the beginning of a poem ''[[Pan Tadeusz]]''.<ref name="MickeviciusVle"/> The translation into Lithuanian and publishing of Mickiewicz's works has continued after the [[Act of Independence of Lithuania|restoration of Lithuania's statehood]] in 1918.<ref name="MickeviciusVle"/>

Mickiewicz's importance extends beyond literature to the broader spheres of culture and politics; Wyka writes that he was a "singer and epic poet of the Polish people and a pilgrim for the freedom of nations."<ref name="psb704"/> Scholars have used the expression "cult of Mickiewicz" to describe the reverence in which he is held as a "national prophet."<ref name="psb704"/><ref name="Wachtel2006"/><ref name="Peterkiewicz1970"/> On hearing of Mickiewicz's death, his fellow bard Krasiński wrote: <blockquote>For men of my generation, he was milk and honey, gall and life's blood: we all descend from him. He carried us off on the surging billow of his inspiration and cast us into the world.<ref name="psb704" /><ref name="MickiewiczAmerica1944" /> </blockquote>[[Edward Henry Lewinski Corwin]] described Mickiewicz's works as [[Prometheus|Promethean]], as "reaching more Polish hearts" than the other Polish Bards, and affirmed Danish critic [[Georg Brandes]]' assessment of Mickiewicz's works as "healthier" than those of [[George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron|Byron]], [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]], [[Homer]], and Goethe.<ref name="corwin" /> Koropeckyi writes that Mickiewicz has "informed the foundations of [many] parties and ideologies" in Poland from the 19th century to this day, "down to the rappers in Poland's post-socialist blocks, who can somehow still declare that 'if Mickiewicz was alive today, he'd be a good [[Rapping|rapper]].'"<ref name="Koropeckyi2008-pref" /> While Mickiewicz's popularity has endured two centuries in Poland, he is less well known abroad, but in the 19th  century he had won substantial international fame among "people that dared resist the brutal might of reactionary empires."<ref name="Koropeckyi2008-pref" />

Mickiewicz has been written about or had works dedicated to him by many authors in Poland ([[Adam Asnyk|Asnyk]], [[Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński|Gałczyński]], [[Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz|Iwaszkiewicz]], [[Mieczysław Jastrun|Jastrun]], [[Jan Kasprowicz|Kasprowicz]], [[Jan Lechoń|Lechoń]], [[Maria Konopnicka|Konopnicka]], [[Teofil Lenartowicz]], [[Cyprian Norwid|Norwid]], [[Julian Przyboś|Przyboś]], [[Tadeusz Różewicz|Różewicz]], [[Antoni Słonimski|Słonimski]], Słowacki, [[Leopold Staff|Staff]], [[Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer|Tetmajer]], [[Julian Tuwim|Tuwim]], [[Kornel Ujejski|Ujejski]], [[Kazimierz Wierzyński|Wierzyński]], [[Józef Bohdan Zaleski|Zaleski]] and others) and by authors outside Poland ([[Valery Bryusov|Bryusov]], Goethe, Pushkin, [[Ludwig Uhland|Uhland]], [[Jaroslav Vrchlický|Vrchlický]] and others).<ref name="psb704"/> He has been a character in works of fiction, including a large body of dramatized biographies, e.g., in 1900, [[Stanisław Wyspiański]]'s ''Legion''.<ref name="psb704"/> He has also been a subject of many paintings, by [[Eugène Delacroix]], [[Józef Oleszkiewicz]], [[Aleksander Orłowski]], [[Wojciech Stattler]] and [[Walenty Wańkowicz]].<ref name="psb705"/> Monuments and other tributes (streets and schools named for him) abound in Poland and Lithuania, and in other former territories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth: Ukraine and Belarus.<ref name="psb704" /><ref name="Koropeckyi2008-pref" /> He has also been the subject of many statues and busts by [[Antoine Bourdelle]], [[David d'Angers]], {{Interlanguage link|Antoni Kurzawa|pl}}, [[Władysław Oleszczyński]], {{Interlanguage link|Zbigniew Pronaszko|pl}}, [[Teodor Rygier]], [[Wacław Szymanowski]] and [[Jakub Tatarkiewicz]].<ref name="psb705"/> In 1898, the 100th anniversary of his birth, a towering statue by [[Cyprian Godebski (sculptor)|Cyprian Godebski]] was erected in Warsaw.  Its base carries the inscription, "To the Poet from the People."<ref name="Warsaw and surroundings"/> In 1955, the 100th anniversary of his death, the [[University of Poznań]] adopted him as its official patron.<ref name="psb704"/>

Much has been written about Mickiewicz, though the vast majority of this scholarly and popular literature is available only in Polish. Works devoted to him, according to Koropeckyi, author of a 2008 English biography, "could fill a good shelf or two."<ref name="Koropeckyi2008-pref" /> Koropeckyi notes that, apart from some specialist literature, only five book-length biographies of Mickiewicz have been published in English.<ref name="Koropeckyi2008-pref" /> He also writes that, though many of Mickiewicz's works have been reprinted numerous times, no language has a "definitive critical edition of his works."<ref name="Koropeckyi2008-pref" />

=== Museums ===
[[File:LT Kaunas, Muz Dom Perkunasa - Sala Mickiewicza, 2019.08.05, fot Ivonna Nowicka (1) portrait.jpg|thumb|A sculpture of Mickiewicz in the museum at the [[House of Perkunas]] in [[Kaunas]], fot. Ivonna Nowicka.]]
A number of museums in Europe are dedicated to Mickiewicz:
* [[Warsaw]] has an [[Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature, Warsaw|Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature]].<ref name="psb704" />
* His house in [[Novogrudok|Navahrudak]] is now a museum ({{Interlanguage link|Adam Mickiewicz Museum, Navahrudak|pl|Muzeum Adama Mickiewicza w Nowogródku}}).<ref name="Muzeum Adama Mickiewicza w Nowogródku" />
* There is a ''Mickievičiaus Memorialinis Butas-Muziejus'' Museum of Adam Mickiewicz in [[Vilnius]].
* The [[House of Perkūnas]] in [[Kaunas]] where the school Mickiewicz attended used to be located has a museum devoted to him and his work.
* The house where he lived and died in Constantinople ([[Adam Mickiewicz Museum, Istanbul]]).<ref name="psb704" />
* There is a ''[[Musée Adam Mickiewicz]]'' in Paris, France.<ref name="Musee Adam Mickiewicz"/>