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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Polish Literature |
 | | Of the literature of Poland before the advent of Christianity (965) very few traces indeed are extant. |
| | At this period, too, the Jesuit Skarga, the purest embodiment of Polish patriotism in literature, preached and wrote, calling upon all Poles to save their country, though that country was then so powerful that his cry of alarm was like the voice of a prophet. |
| | Poles had come to be ignorant of any other literature, and the pseudo-classic taste of the time, together with the glamour of Napoleon's victories, had an excessive influence upon both literature and politics, upon language and social life. |
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