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100 1 _aPrzyjemski, Juliusz Rawicz,
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245 1 0 _aWanda
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-01-16
508 _aCharlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"Wanda" by Juliusz Rawicz Przyjemski is a dramatic poem written in the mid-19th century. It retells the Polish legend of Queen Wanda of Cracow as a patriotic verse drama about a ruler torn between private feeling and public duty under the shadow of a German suitor’s threats. Framed by choruses, a bard, and mythic river and night spirits, it fuses Romantic nationalism with questions of love, law, and sacrifice. Expect stately, ceremonial scenes and a heroine whose resolve directs the destiny of her people. The opening of the poem sets a national and mythic tone: a Bard invokes Poland’s stifled song, while goblins and water spirits argue over the power of poetry and virtue on the Vistula’s banks. Wanda, newly ruling after Krakus, seeks counsel from the Bard about refusing all suitors and dedicating herself to the gods; he warns that queens are bound to fruitfulness, example, and the common good. Hermann, envoy of Rüdiger, arrives with threats; Wanda rejects him, and invasion follows. She leads Poland to victory, is praised by warriors and maidens, yet returns to Cracow troubled by the loneliness and perils of a woman’s rule. When the people refuse to choose any king but the one she names, she resolves to seek divine guidance atop Krakus’s tomb, poised between her nation’s love and the burdens of sovereignty. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: The Chiswick Press, 1863
653 _aPolish drama -- Translations into English
653 _aWanda (Mythical queen of Poland) -- Drama
700 1 _aMay, Anna Maria
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/wandadramaticpoe00przy/page/n5/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77708
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