List of Contributors Introduction El?bieta Nowicka Music in Romantic Literature and Criticism – Approximations Alina Borkowska-Rychlewska Shakespeare of the Polish Romantics Wojciech Hamerski Irony as a ‘Centrifugal Force of Disincarnations’ in Polish Romanticism Krzysztof Trybu?Memory Instead of History: Mickiewicz, S?wacki, Norwid Jerzy Fie?o The Views of Mickiewicz and Krasi?ki on Russia Zbigniew Przychodniak Princess Trubecka in a Siberian Hell. A Dialogue Between Three European Poets. (With the Participation of Dante) El?ieta Lijewska A Duet to Democracy. Cyprian Norwid –Alexis de Tocqueville Mirella Kry?Beauty and Truth in Cyprian Norwid’s Italian Novellas Arkadiusz Krawczyk Italian Renaissance Art in Teofil Lenartowicz’s Literary and Visual Creative Output: A Case Study Dagmara Nowakowska India and the History of Slavdom in Mickiewicz’s Paris Lectures Lidia Banowska Mi?osz’s Mickiewicz as a Mystical Poet Index of names