Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584) is acknowledged to be Poland's greatest poet, and this work represents the height of his achievement. The poems it contains, incorporating outspokenness and breach of decorum, are an impassioned but controlled expression of grief over the death of his daughter Orszula.
Jan Kochanowski is one of the great Polish poets of the sixteenth century. Because of its intimate and domestic nature, this poignant series of poems on the death of Kochanowski's young daughter was a radical and rebellious departure from the literary conventions of his day. But it is this same intimacy that now gives Laments a startling potency ...
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California
Date Published: 1928
Description: Very Good. 8vo-7¾"-9¾" tall. Lightly bumped corners, with light staining to cover & spine at titles 156 pp. Translated from Polish. Inscribed by George Rapall Noyes (one of the translators) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ossolineum
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9788304006751ISBN:8304006758
Description: Fine in very good dust jacket. hardcover, dust jacket with edge tears, rip to rear, creases, with new covers with bright gilt titles and monogram, clean pages, binding tight as unread (clean page edge; pp. 203-208 attached together, i.e., uncut). Reprint of Polish version of the Psalms of David, with the original musical transcription, originally published in Poland in 1580, with Introduction (pp. 7-37) and indices. Note: Post Office Delivery Confirmation provided by e-mail to enable you to ... read more
Edition: 1st edition
Binding: hardcover
Date Published: 1956
Description: Maja Berezowska. Good/Poor: some toning to end papers, stamp on rear page. 4to, 86 pgs, DJ: front and rear cover seperated, stained, chipped, with some paper loss. Color and black & white illustrations. A collection of funny adult poetry. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Krakow: Collegium Columbinum, 2000
Date Published: 2000
Description: Like New. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. ALMOST NO WEAR TO COVER. FACSIMILIE TEXT IN POLISH WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION. LOC: KOCH. read more
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