What is Polish literature?
[[File:Henryk Sienkiewicz 02.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Henryk Sienkiewicz]]]] Almost no '''Polish literature''' remains before [[Christianity|Christianisation]] in the [[10th century]]. Polish literature was written in the [[Latin language]] during the [[Middle Ages]] (there are only several Polish language texts from that times). The [[Polish language]] was accepted as equal to Latin after the [[Renaissance]] for literature. [[Jan Kochanowski]] was a leading [[poet]] of European Renaissance literature in the [[16th century]]. Polish writers were inspired by Western European literature but they had their own ideas and trends too. Those trends were coming to Poland because of [[noble]] people's travells and political contacts but they were becoming popular some time later then in other countries. Polish Baroque literature had to trends: elitary one ([[Jan Andrzej Morsztyn]], [[Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski]], [[Daniel Naborowski]]) and the other one, created by [[szlachta|usual nobles]] ([[Jan Chryzostom Pasek]]). In times of [[Enlightenment]] Polish literature was influenced by [[France]]. [[Poland-Lithuania]] was very weak country and needed political changes. Literature was mainly about society and state, not about love or religion. In 19th century Poland was not independent. From 1822 to 1863 there was [[Romanticism]] in Polish literature. Romantic poets include [[Adam Mickiewicz]] who wrote ''[[Sir Thaddeus|Pan Tadeusz]]'' epic in 1834, [[Juliusz Słowacki]] and [[Zygmunt Krasiński]]. After failed anti-Russian uprising in 1863 Romanticism ended in Poland. Several Polish novelists have won the [[Nobel Prize|Nobel prize]]. [[Henryk Sienkiewicz]] won in 1905. He wrote dramatized versions of famous events in Polish history. [[Władysław Reymont]] won a Nobel prize in 1924. He wrote the novel ''[[Chłopi]]''. [[Stanisław Lem]] is famous [[science fiction]] author in the modern era. His ''[[Solaris (novel)|Solaris]]'' novel was made twice into a feature [[Movie|film]]. {{lit-stub}} [[Category:Literature by nationali