Perhaps second only to national bard Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Slowacki (1809 – 1848) was one of Poland’s greatest Romantic poets. Hear extracts from his epic poem Beniowski.

Juliusz Słowacki...was one of the most famous Polish romantic poets. His earliest works, many of them created under influence of Byron and Shakespeare, were usually Oriental poems (Arab) or tragedies based on historic events (Maria Stuart, Jan Bielecki). Read on…