Romanticism in Poland was a literary, artistic and intellectual period in the evolution of Polish culture that began around 1820, coinciding with the publication of Adam Mickiewicz's first poems in 1822. It ended with the suppression of the January 1863 Uprising against the Russian Empire, in 1864. The latter event ushered in a new era in Polish culture known as the Positivism.
Polish Romanticism, unlike Romanticism elsewhere in Europe, was not limited to literary and artistic concerns. Due to specific Polish historical circumstances, notably the partitions of Poland, it was also an ideological, philosophical and political movement that expressed the ideals and way of life of a large portion of the Polish society subjected to foreign rule as well as ethnic and religious discrimination.
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