The Undivine Comedy; and Other Poems

Until World War I, Krasinski was considered, together with Adam Mickiewicz and Slowacki, a national "poet-seer." At present his reputation has been significantly diminished, but he is rightly viewed as a major figure of the romantic period. His best work, the poetic drama The Undivine Comedy 1835), deals with the problem of a poet's moral responsibility in a social framework (an important romantic dilemma) and with the problems of revolution. Iridion (1836), another poetic drama, is set in third-century Rome.

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