Article deals with the reception of the Polish Romantic drama in Croatia. Poets and "prophets" Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Slowacki and Zygmunt Krasinski were in their domestic surrounding subject to various and in many ways opposed cults that influenced also the character of Croatian reception. It refers primarily to drama which had a special meaning in the strategy of their work. "Readings" by Croatian critics are laid out and questioned by means of two codes: primary, structural features of the Romantic drama - fantasy, fragmentation, openess, generic bastardy, and the like, and secondary, with respect to the Polish conceptual peculiarity: "messianism". Qualitative differences in the process of their reception and understanding have been determined depending on the "degree of complication" of these two aspects, which shows that Mickiewicz and Krasinski have had all reductions considered, a relatively good reception, whereas, Slowacki has remained misunderstood in spite of his modernistic bent. While "messianism" yoked into the functional "horizons of expectation" of Croatian readership causes well-meant replies, structural features of this drama present Croatian readers with honourable exceptions, with almost insurmountable obstacles. Basically it is a result of the absence of Romantic drama in the repertoire of the Croatian theatre houses, and unreadiness of the critical mind to anti-Aristotelian revolt.