Tymon Zaborowski (1799–1828) was a Polish

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...

. He was influenced at the beginning of his writing career by

classicism Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for a classical period, classical antiquity in the Western tradition, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate. In its purest form, classicism is an aesthe ...

, then by

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. He is also known, after one of his poems, as ("the Bard of the Honey Harvest").

Life

Tymon Zaborowski was born on 18 April 1799 in Lychkivtsi,

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. In 1810–16 he attended the . He began writing in 1814 as a member of a student (Writing Club). In 1816–18, in

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, Zaborowski was editor of the literary section of a magazine, (Scholarly Exercises). Then he settled at the family estate in Liczkowce. He died in 1828 in Liczkowce. It is unknown whether his death date is 20 or 28 March.

Works

* (1822–24) * (1830) * , a

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poem Unfinished

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s: * (ca. 1818) * (1822), published in in 1883 Never-published

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s: * * Many of his works were published for the first time in (Collected Works), 3 volumes, 1936.

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Polish male poets 1799 births 1828 deaths Date of death unknown 19th-century Polish poets 19th-century Polish male writers Poets from the Russian Empire {{Poland-poet-stub

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