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A Polish novelist, essayist, and critic; born in Volhynia in 1805; died at Warsaw, Nov. 18, 1863. While still a student at Warsaw, he won a literary reputation in the war of the romantic upon the then dominant classical school. "Thoughts on Polish Literature" and "Melodies from the Ukraine" were his first noteworthy volumes; but the revolution of 1830 interrupted his literary career for nearly ten years, when he completed "Criticism and Literature". Two historical novels, one based on a tragic episode in the Ukraine, and the other upon a peasant outbreak in the same region, entitled respectively "The Koliszezysna and the Steppe Dwellers" and "The Storm in the Steppes", are fine examples of Polish literature. An epoch-making work is his "The Old and the New Ukraine".