Konstanty Gaszyński found himself in Lithuania during the November Uprising, fighting as a lieutenant in the corps of General Giełgud. The images of the uprising in Lithuania are reflected in his book Pieśni pielgrzyma polskiego (The Songs of a Polish Pilgrim). It was published in Paris in 1833, after the defeat of the uprising, and it contains 24 poems, e.g.: Przejście Niemna przez wojska polskie (Crossing the Neman by the Polish Army), Spalenie Czerwonego dworu (The Burning of the Red Mansion), Zajęcie Rosień przez powstańców (Insurgents Occupying Rosienie) and Do Emilii Plater i Marii Raszanowicz, walczących w szeregach powstańców litewskich (To Emilia Plater and Maria Raszanowicz, Fighting in the Ranks of the Insurgents of Lithuania).
After the period of the Romanticism the new conceptions of the literature and entirely dif-ferent ways of comprehension of her part appeared, for example in 19th century was more and more clear visible the subordination of the literature of market mechanisms. Years 90. brought the diametrical change of the social context of functioning the literature in Poland. It is hard on the series to think him without the realization of these irreversible alterna-tively in the process of the reception of the romantic literature.
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