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Michael J. Mikos is a
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of foreign languages and
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at the
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. He specializes in
Polish language Polish (, , or simply , ) is a West Slavic languages, West Slavic language of the Lechitic languages, Lechitic subgroup, within the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family, and is written in the Latin script. It is primarily spo ...
,
literature Literature is any collection of Writing, written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, Play (theatre), plays, and poetry, poems. It includes both print and Electroni ...
, and
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. He is also a
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and has rendered many works of
Polish literature Polish literature is the literary tradition of Poland. Most Polish literature has been written in the Polish language, though other languages used in Poland over the centuries have also contributed to Polish literary traditions, including Latin, ...
into
English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Culture, language and peoples * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England * ''English'', an Amish ter ...
.


Selected publications

*Adam Mickiewicz. ''The Sun of Liberty''. Warsaw: Energeia, 1998. *''Polish Literature from the Middle Ages to the End of the Eighteenth Century. A Bilingual Anthology''. Warsaw: Constans, 1999. *Juliusz Slowacki. ''This Fateful Power''. Lublin: Norbertinum, 1999. *''The Virgin Mary's Crown. A Bilingual Anthology of Medieval Polish Marian Poetry''. Cracow: Collegium Columbinum, 2002 (with Roman Mazurkiewicz). *''Polish Romantic Literature. An Anthology''. Bloomington: Slavica, 2002. *''Polish Literature from 1864 to 1918. An Anthology''. Bloomington: Slavica, 2006. *''Occasional Poems''. Bloomington: Slavica, 2023.


Translation

*Wencel, Wojciech ''Imago Mundo and Other Poems''. Slavica, 2023.


External links

*Michael Mikos, Professor of Foreign Languages and Literature,
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Polish–English translators Linguists from the United States Living people University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee faculty 1939 births {{US-linguist-stub