Author: Mickiewicz, Adam & Konstantinowa, F D [illustrator]
Title: Sonety Krymskie
Description: Czytelink, Warsawa, 1955, 1st thus. Paperback, G. 36pp, b/w frontis, 18 woodcut vignettes, grease?stain to the bottom R corner of the pages, covers grubby. Neat pencil inscription reads that the book was 'bought from Anne Pennington's estate, 4th Jan 1982. Paperback , no dustjacket. ¶ The Crimean Sonnets of the Polish poet & political activist Adam Bernard Mickiewicz [ 1798 - 1855 ]. They are a series of 18 poems, giving an artistic telling of a journey through the Crimea. They were originally published in 1826. Anne Pennington [ 1934 - 1981 ] British philologist specialising in Slavic studies.

Keywords: poetry, poems, crimean, sonnets, polish literature