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Polish Poems
List of poets who have written much of their poetry in Polish. See also Discussion Page for additional poets not listed here. Three 19th century poets have historically been recognized as the national poets of Polish Romantic literature, dubbed the Three Bards. There have been five Polish-language Nobel Prize in Literature laureates, of which Czesław Miłosz and Wisława Szymborska were poets. A * Franciszka Arnsztajnowa (1865–1942) * Adam Asnyk (1838–1897) B * Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński (1921–1944) * Józef Baka (1707–1780) * Edward Balcerzan (born 1937) * Stanisław Baliński (1899–1984) * Marcin Baran (born 1963) * Stanisław Barańczak (1946–2014), Nike Award winner * Miron Białoszewski (1922–1983) * Zbigniew Bieńkowski (1913–1994) * Biernat of Lublin (1465?– after 1529) * Tadeusz Borowski (1922–1951) * Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński (1874–1941) * Władysław Broniewski (1897–1962) * Jerzy Braun (1907–1975) * Jan Brzechwa (1898–1966) * Teo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poetry
Poetry (from the Greek language, Greek word ''poiesis'', "making") is a form of literature, literary art that uses aesthetics, aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meaning (linguistics), meanings in addition to, or in place of, Denotation, literal or surface-level meanings. Any particular instance of poetry is called a poem and is written by a poet. Poets use a variety of techniques called poetic devices, such as assonance, alliteration, Phonaesthetics#Euphony and cacophony, euphony and cacophony, onomatopoeia, rhythm (via metre (poetry), metre), and sound symbolism, to produce musical or other artistic effects. They also frequently organize these effects into :Poetic forms, poetic structures, which may be strict or loose, conventional or invented by the poet. Poetic structures vary dramatically by language and cultural convention, but they often use Metre (poetry), rhythmic metre (patterns of syllable stress or syllable weight, syllable (mora) weight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biernat Of Lublin
Biernat of Lublin ( Polish: ''Biernat z Lublina'', Latin ''Bernardus Lublinius'', ca. 1465 – after 1529) was a Polish poet, fabulist, translator, and physician. He was one of the first Polish-language writers known by name, and the most interesting of the earliest ones. He expressed plebeian, Renaissance, and religiously liberal opinions."''Biernat z Lublina''" ("Biernat of Lublin"), ''Encyklopedia Polski'' (Encyclopedia of Poland), p. 57. Life Biernat was born in Lublin and wrote the first book printed in the Polish language: printed in 1513, in Kraków, at Poland's first printing establishment, operated by Florian Ungler—a prayer-book, ''Raj duszny'' ('' Hortulus Animae'', Eden of the Soul). Biernat also penned the first secular work in Polish literature: a collection of verse fables, plebeian and anticlerical in nature: ''Żywot Ezopa Fryga'' (The Life of Aesop the Phrygian), 1522. Works *''Raj duszny'' (Eden of the Soul), 1513 *''Żywot Ezopa Fryga'' (The Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerzy Ficowski
Jerzy Tadeusz Ficowski (; 4 October 1924 in Warsaw – 9 May 2006 in Warsaw) was a Polish poet, writer, ethnographer and translator (from Yiddish, Russian, Romani and Hungarian). Biography and works During the German occupation of Poland in World War II, Ficowski who lived in Włochy near Warsaw was a member of the Polish resistance. He was a member of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa, AK), was imprisoned in the infamous Pawiak and took part in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. His codename was ''Wrak'' and he fought in Mokotów region. Following the Warsaw Uprising, Ficowski entered a camp with other survivors of the battle. After the war, Ficowski returned to Warsaw and enrolled at the university in order to study philosophy and sociology. There he published his first volume of poetry, ''Ołowiani żołnierze'' (The Tin Soldiers, 1948). This volume reflected the Stalinist atmosphere of the early postwar Poland, in which heroes of the Armia Krajowa Warsaw Uprising were treated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leszek Engelking
Leszek Maria Engelking (2 February 1955 – 22 October 2022) was a Polish poet, short story writer, novelist, translator, literary critic, essayist, Polish philologist, and literary academic, scholar, and lecturer. Engelking translated a vast amount of literature into Polish, from Spanish language, Spanish, English language, English, Russian language, Russian, Ukrainian language, Ukrainian, Belarusian language, Belarusian, Slovak language, Slovak but in particular from Czech language, Czech. Biography Education, editorial, and academic career Engelking was born in Chorzów in 1955 and spent his childhood in Upper Silesia. In 1979, Engelking graduated from Warsaw University, he received his doctorate in 2002 and postdoctoral degree in 2013. From 1984 to 1995, he was a member of an editorial staff of "Literatura na Świecie" ("Literature in the World"), a Polish monthly devoted to foreign literature. From 1997 to 1998, he was a lecturer at Warsaw University and a visiting profes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elżbieta Drużbacka
Elżbieta Drużbacka (née Kowalska, 1695 or 1698 – March 14, 1765 in Tarnów) was a Polish poet of the late Baroque period. Little is known of her life. She learned French at the court of Elżbieta Sieniawska. She married a Jewish man, and had two daughters, After she was widowed, she moved to the Bernardine monastery at Tarnów, where she died. Her best known work is ''Opisanie czterech części roku'' ("Description of the Four Seasons"). Biography Little is known of the life of Drużbacka. Twenty-seven of her letters survive. She was born around 1695 to the Kowalski family, and may have grown up in Greater Poland, Pomerania or Red Ruthenia. She learned French at the court of Elżbieta Sieniawska, the wife of Adam Mikołaj Sieniawski and a renowned patron of the arts. It is not known what other education Drużbacka received. She was married some time between 1720 and 1726 to Kazimierz Drużbacki, a Jewish treasurer, and they had two daughters together. Their first daught ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacek Dehnel
Jacek Maria Dehnel (born 1 May 1980 in Gdańsk, Poland) is a Polish people, Polish poet, writer, translator and painter. Life and work He graduated from the Stefan Żeromski High School No. 5 in Gdańsk, where he excelled in Humanities. Dehnel studied at the University of Warsaw, University of Warsaw's College of Inter-Area Individual Studies In the Humanities and Social Sciences (Polish language, Polish: ''Kolegium Międzyobszarowych Indywidualnych Studiów Humanistycznych i Społecznych'') and graduated from the Faculty of Polish Language and Polish literature, Literature, where he obtained a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree, writing a thesis on Stanisław Barańczak, Stanisław Barańczak's translations of Philip Larkin's works. His first collection of poems was the last book recommended by Polish Nobel Prize Laureate, Czesław Miłosz. Dehnel has published his poems in various literary magazines, including ''Kwartalnik Artystyczny'', ''Studium'', ''Przegląd Artystyczno-Literac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tytus Czyżewski
Tytus Czyżewski (28 December 1880 in Przyszowa – 5 May 1945 in Kraków) was a Polish painter, art theoretician, Futurism (art), Futurist poet, playwright, member of the Formizm, Polish Formists and a Kapists, Colorist. Biography In 1902 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in the painting studios of Józef Mehoffer and Leon Wyczółkowski. Czyżewski travelled to Paris and learned from the artistic trends there. He began exhibiting in 1906. Czyżewski painting style was highly influenced by Cézanne and El Greco, whose work he admired until his death. In 1917, with the brothers Zbigniew Pronaszko, Zbigniew and Andrzej Pronaszko, he organized in Kraków an exhibition of Polish Expressionist works. The group later became known as the ''Polish Formists''. Until the break-up of the Formists in 1922, he was the primary artist and theoretician behind the movement as well as the joint editor of the periodical ''Formiści''. He was also co-founder of the Polish Futurist c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Józef Czechowicz
Józef Czechowicz (15 March 1903 – 9 September 1939) was an avant-garde Polish poet. Known as a nostalgic, catastrophic author, he was also the leader of the literary avant-garde and bohemians in Lublin.Pietrasiewicz, Tomasz and Aleksandra Zińczuk"Józef Czechowicz" ''Lublin. Pamięć Miejsca''. For this visionary poet, verse seemed to be a question of imagination; he would play with word consonances, dreamlike associations, musicality, and create picturesque visions.Kowalczykowa, Alina (2004). "The Interwar Years – 1918-1939" in: ''Ten Centuries of Polish Literature'', trans. Daniel Sax, p. 222-23. IBL PAN, Warszawa. . Czechowicz lived and worked in Lublin before moving to Warsaw; he also died in Lublin, a few days after World War II had started. Life Józef Czechowicz came from a poor family living in Lublin. He was born in a basement flat, which has not survived to these days, at 3 Kapucyńska Street. His father, Paweł Czechowicz, worked as a janitor and, later, as a mete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrzej Bursa
Andrzej Bursa (21 March 1932 – 15 November 1957) was a Polish poet and writer. Born in Kraków, he studied journalism, then Bulgarian at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In 1954–1957 Bursa worked as a journalist and reporter for the Kraków newspaper '' Dziennik Polski''. Many of his contemporaries attributed his early death at the age of 25 to suicide, while the true cause of it was a congenital heart disease. He was buried at the Rakowicki Cemetery. Bursa published his first poem in 1954. A prolific writer, he published 37 poems and a short story in different magazines during his lifetime. He died of a heart attack in 1957. Shortly thereafter, his first poetry collection was published, an important event in Polish poetry. Presently, there is a poetry prize named after Bursa which many living Polish poets have won (e.g. Ewa Lipska and Stanisław Barańczak). External links Andrzej Bursa Poetry, at www.guernicamag.comAndrzej Bursa Poetry, at www.andrzejbursa.republika. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teodor Bujnicki
Teodor Bujnicki (13 December 1907 – 27 November 1944) was a Polish poet and a member of the literary group ''Żagary''. During World War II, Bujnicki was condemned for "collaboration with Soviet occupants" in Vilnius after Lithuania's incorporation into the USSR. The reason for this was that he published several critical articles about the Polish pre-war authorities and the Sanation regime as the editor of a Polish-language Soviet journal. For this, Bujnicki was sentenced to death ''in absentia'' for treason by the Polish Underground State in Vilnius in 1942. However, he avoided execution, as he fled from Vilnius and hid by living with relatives in Panevėžys and Palanga, during Nazi Germany's occupation of Lithuania. The cultural director of the Union of Polish Patriots, Bujnicki returned to Vilnius continued working as the editor of the journal after the city was retaken by the Red Army in 1944. As the sentence from 1942 was never changed nor appealed, he was shot and mortally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Brzechwa
Jan Brzechwa (; 15 August 1898 – 2 July 1966) was a Polish poet, author and lawyer, known mostly for his contribution to children's literature. He was born Jan Wiktor Lesman to a Polish Jew, Polish family of Jewish descent.Brzechwa, Jan (1898–1966) ''The YIVO encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe'', Volume 1. ''Yale University Press'', 2008. . Early life Brzechwa was born in Żmerynka, Podolia. His father was a railway engineer and his mother Michalina, née Lewicka, was a French teacher. Jan spent a lot of his childhood traveling around Eastern Poland ("Kresy") with his family. He lived in Kiev, then in Warsaw, and later in Saint Petersburg. In 1916–1918, he studied veterinary medicine in Kazan. In May 1918, he return ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerzy Braun (writer)
Jerzy Bronisław Braun, ps. "Bronisław Rogowski" (born September 1, 1901, in Dąbrowa Tarnowska, died October 17, 1975, in Rome) was a Polish writer, political activist, poet, playwright, literary critic, columnist, screenwriter, philosopher, scout, the last chairman of the Council of National Unity (from March to July 1945), and the last Government Delegate for Poland from June 1945. References 1901 births 1975 deaths 20th-century Polish politicians John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin alumni Polish Scouts and Guides Polish people of the Polish–Soviet War Commanders of the Order of Polonia Restituta Burials at Powązki Cemetery Polish male writers Polish journalists Polish male poets Warsaw Uprising insurgents Polish anti-communists Polish emigrants to Italy 20th-century Polish philosophers Polish messianism Government delegates for Poland {{Poland-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
