POLISH LITERATURE
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17TH CENTURY POLISH LITERATURE


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INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS / WORKS


Anonymous -- "Fame"
list bullet  Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature: An Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, Ohio/Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers. 1996. 173.



Anonymous -- "On Proud Masters"
list bullet  Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature: An Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, Ohio/Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers. 1996. 170.



Anonymous -- "On Youth and Love"
list bullet  Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature: An Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, Ohio/Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers. 1996. 170.



Anonymous -- "Running to the Stable"
list bullet  Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature: An Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, Ohio/Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers. 1996. 173-4.



Anonymous -- "Time Destroys Everything"
list bullet  Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature: An Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, Ohio/Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers. 1996. 173.



Anonymous -- "Twelve Songs on the Siege of the Bright Mountains of Częstochowa": excerpts.
list bullet  Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature: An Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, Ohio/Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers. 1996. 170-2.



Fabian Birkowski (1566-1636)
list bullet  No English translations of his work appear to be in print at this time.



Andrzej Fredro (1620-1679)
list bullet  No English translations of his work appear to be in print at this time.



Jan Gawiński (circa 1622-circa 1684)
list bullet & link  3 Poems. Trans. several. Poets and Poetry of Poland: A Collection of Polish Verse. Ed. Paul Soboleski. Milwaukee, WI: Paul Soboleski Society. 1929.

  • "Pastoral (Sielanka)." 74-77.
  • "The Ploughman and the Lark." 77.
  • "Soldier Slain."


Marek Jakimowski (?-?)
list bullet  No English translations of his work appear to be in print at this time.



Olbrycht Karmanowski (?-?)
list bullet  No English translations of his work appear to be in print at this time.



Piotr Kochanowski (1566-1620)
list bullet  Gofred, or Jerusalem Delivered: excerpt of Kochanowski's Polish translation of Torquatto Tasso's Gerusaleme Liberata. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature: An Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, Ohio/Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers. 1996. 66-69.



Wespazjan Kochowski (1633-1700)
list bullet  4 Poems. Trans. Bogdana Carpenter/John R. Carpenter. Monumenta Polonica: The First Four Centuries of Polish Poetry. A Bilingual Anthology. Ed. Bogdana Carpenter. Ann Arbor: [University of] Michigan Slavic Publications. 1989. 365-383.

  • "A Curse on the Sons of the Cross."
  • "A Full Glass for Victory."
  • "A Monument for Brave Soldiers."
  • "Psalm XXVI."

list bullet  6 Poems. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature: An Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, Ohio/Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers. 1996.
  • "A Curse on the Sons of the Crown Who Break Up the Diets." 149-150.
  • "Polish Epigrams In Our Language: Trifles."
    • "Gold Scepters: Insignia of the Renowned Academy." 151-152.
    • "Old-fashioned Manners." 152.
    • "Pares ab Adam." 152

  • "Requirements for Good Cheer." 152.
  • "Song XVII: A Monument to the Brave Soldiers Fallen on the Battlefield of Batoh with Their Hetman Marcin Kalinowski, Voivode of Czernichów." 147-148.


Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski (1642-1702)
list bullet   An Account of the Secret Services of Monsieur de Vernay, the French Minister at Ratisbonne to Count Teckeley: As They Pass'd by Way of Letter, with the Cypher and Key Taken from the Original, Printed in French at Ratisbonne: Together with the Speech and Memorial of the Imperial Minister Zorowiski, Deliver'd to the King of Poland: to Which is Added Mercurius Panegyricus.. Trans. unknown. Ratisbonne: 1683.
list bullet & link  3 Poems. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś at Staropolska On-line.


list bullet  3 Poems. Trans. Bogdana Carpenter/John R. Carpenter and Harold B. Segel. Monumenta Polonica: The First Four Centuries of Polish Poetry. A Bilingual Anthology. Ed. Bogdana Carpenter. Ann Arbor: [University of] Michigan Slavic Publications. 1989. 385-393.
list bullet  6 Poems. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature: An Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, Ohio/Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers. 1996.


Samuel Maskiewicz (circa 1580-1640)
list bullet  No English translations of his work appear to be in print at this time.



Anna Memorata (1612-?)
list bullet  No English translations of her work appear to be in print at this time.



Kasper Miaskowski (circa 1550-1622)
list bullet & link   2 Poems. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś at Staropolska On-line.


list bullet & link  2 Poems. Trans. several. Poets and Poetry of Poland: A Collection of Polish Verse. Ed. Paul Soboleski. Milwaukee, WI: Paul Soboleski Society. 1929.
list bullet & link  3 Poems. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Renaissance Literature: an Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, OH: Slavica. 1995.
list bullet  "On a Painted Glass Goblet." Trans. Bogdana Carpenter/John R. Carpenter. Monumenta Polonica: The First Four Centuries of Polish Poetry. A Bilingual Anthology. Ed. Bogdana Carpenter. Ann Arbor: [University of] Michigan Slavic Publications. 1989. 227-229.


Hieronym Morsztyn (circa 1581 - circa 1623)
list bullet & link   2 Poems. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś at Jan Rybicki's Polish Modern Poetry website.


list bullet & link   3 Poems. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś at Staropolska On-line.
list bullet  4 Poems. Trans. Bogdana Carpenter/John R. Carpenter. Monumenta Polonica: The First Four Centuries of Polish Poetry. A Bilingual Anthology. Ed. Bogdana Carpenter. Ann Arbor: [University of] Michigan Slavic Publications. 1989. 267-277.
list bullet  6 Poems. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature: An Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, Ohio/Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers. 1996.


Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (1621-1693)
list bullet  4 Poems. Love Poems from Around the World. Ed. Editors of Hippocrene Books. Hippocrene. 2000.

  • "A Butterfly." Trans. not identified. 322.
  • "A Smart Maid." Trans. not identified. 323.
  • "To His Mistress." Trans. not identified. 322.
  • "To Walek." Trans. not identified. 323.

list bullet & link  9 Poems. Trans. Michael J.Mikoś at Staropolska On-line.
list bullet  10 Poems. Trans. Bogdana Carpenter/John R. Carpenter and Harold B. Segel. Monumenta Polonica: The First Four Centuries of Polish Poetry. A Bilingual Anthology. Ed. Bogdana Carpenter. Ann Arbor: [University of] Michigan Slavic Publications. 1989. 303-323
list bullet & link   11 Poems. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś at Jan Rybicki's Polish Modern Poetry website.
list bullet  13 Poems. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature: An Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, Ohio/Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers. 1996.
list bullet   Amoretti: na glos, lutnie i viole da gamba [For Voice, Lute and Viola da Gamba]. [Musical Score] Marek Stachowski, with lyrics by Morsztyn and Edmund Spenser. Krakow: Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne. 1992. Bilingual.
list bullet & link  "Fickle." Trans. Jarosław Zawadzki. Polish Poetry in English.
list bullet  "To His Mistress." Trans. unknown. Slavonic Review 14 (July 1935): 2.


Zbigniew Morsztyn (1633-1700)
list bullet  5 Poems. Trans. Bogdana Carpenter/John R. Carpenter. Monumenta Polonica: The First Four Centuries of Polish Poetry. A Bilingual Anthology. Ed. Bogdana Carpenter. Ann Arbor: [University of] Michigan Slavic Publications. 1989. 325-349.

  • "Emblem 8: `My heart, scorched and burned . . .'"
  • "Emblem 41: `My Bridegroom, onto Your own holy hands . . .'"
  • "Human Thought."
  • "The Nose."
  • "Song of Captivity."

list bullet  8 Poems. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature: An Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, Ohio/Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers. 1996.
  • "Emblem 8." 143.
  • "Emblem 39." 143-144.
  • "Emblem 41." 144-145.
  • "Emblem 47." 145.
  • "Epitaph: For Both Parents." 142.
  • "Epitaph: For Captain Paweł Morsztyn, Killed at Batoh." 142.
  • "Song of Captivity." 136-141.
  • "To a Virtuous Lady." 136.

list bullet  "Emblem 51." Trans. Jerzy Peterkiewicz and Burns Singer. World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time. Ed. Katharine Washburn and John S. Major. W.W. Norton. 1998. 658.


Daniel Naborowski (1573-1640)
list bullet & link  3 Poems. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś at Staropolska On-line.


list bullet  5 Poems. Trans. Bogdana Carpenter/John R. Carpenter and Harold B. Segel. Monumenta Polonica: The First Four Centuries of Polish Poetry. A Bilingual Anthology. Ed. Bogdana Carpenter. Ann Arbor: [University of] Michigan Slavic Publications. 1989. 255-265.
list bullet  8 Poems. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature: An Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, Ohio/Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers. 1996.
list bullet  "The Raspberry." Trans. not identified. The Polish Land: An Anthology in Prose and Verse. Ed. Marion Moore Coleman. Compiled by Klub Polski of Columbia University. Trenton, NJ: White Eagle Publishing. 1943. 97.


Krzysztof Opaliński (1605-1655)
list bullet  "Satire III: On Burdens and Oppressions of Peasants in Poland." Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature: An Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, Ohio/Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers. 1996. 104-108.



Łukasz Opaliński (1612-1662)
list bullet  "Coffin--the Measure of Things" from The New Poet. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature: An Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, Ohio/Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers. 1996. 110-111.



Jerzy Ossoliński (1595-1650) 
list bullet  [Ottoman Threat to Poland] A True Copy of the Latine Oration of the Escellent Lord George Ossolinski, Count Palatine of Tenizyn and Sendomyria, Chamberlain to the Kings Majestie of Poland . . . As It Was Pronounced to His Majestie . . .With the Translation of the Same into English: commanded by His Majestie to Be Published in Print.. Trans. unknown. London: Printed [by George Purslowe] for W. Lee. 1621. In book and microform; also available via Proquest's Early English Books Online (library subscription service).



Jan Chryzostom Pasek (1636-1701)
list bullet  Memoirs: excerpts. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature: An Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, Ohio/Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers. 1996. 164-169.
list bullet  Memoirs of Jan Chryzostom z Goslawic Pasek . Trans. Maria Swiecicka-Ziemianek. New York: Kosciusko Foundation. 1971, 1978.
list bullet  Memoirs of the Polish Baroque: the Writings of Jan Chryzostom Pasek, a Squire of the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania. Ed. and trans. Catherine S. Leach. Berkeley: U California P. 1976.



Anna Teresa Piotrowczykowa (?-?)
list bullet  No English translations of her work appear to be in print at this time.



Jadwiga Piotrowczykowa (?-?)
list bullet  No English translations of her work appear to be in print at this time.



Wacław Potocki (1621-1696)
list bullet & link   2 Poems. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś at Jan Rybicki's Polish Modern Poetry website.


list bullet  3 Poems. Trans. Bogdana Carpenter/John R. Carpenter and Harold B. Segel. Monumenta Polonica: The First Four Centuries of Polish Poetry. A Bilingual Anthology. Ed. Bogdana Carpenter. Ann Arbor: [University of] Michigan Slavic Publications. 1989. 351-363.
list bullet  10 Poems. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature: An Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, Ohio/Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers. 1996.
list bullet & link  "On His Own Poems." Trans. editors of The Sarmatian Review. The Sarmatian Review 13.3 (Sept. 1993).
list bullet  "Winter, Before the War." Trans. Jerzy Peterkiewicz and Burns. Singer. World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time. Ed. Katharine Washburn and John S. Major. W.W. Norton. 1998. 659.


Walenty Roździeński (circa 1560-1622)
list bullet  Officina Ferraria: A Polish Poem of 1612 Describing the Noble Craft of Ironwork. Trans. Stefan Pluszczewski. Ed. Wacław Rozanski and Cyril Stanley Smith. MIT Press. 1977.



Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski ("Casimire") (1595-1640)
list bullet & link   3 Poems. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś at Jan Rybicki's Polish Modern Poetry website.


list bullet & link  4 Poems. Trans. several. Poets and Poetry of Poland: A Collection of Polish Verse. Ed. Paul Soboleski. Milwaukee, WI: Paul Soboleski Society. 1929.
list bullet & link  4 Odes. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś at Staropolska On-line.
list bullet  7 Odes. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś (from the Polish; trans. from Latin into Polish variously). Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature: An Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, Ohio/Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers. 1996.
list bullet  The Odes of Casimire. Trans. G. H. London: Printed by T.W. for Humphrey Moseley. 1646. Available via Proquest's Early English Books Online (library subscription service).
list bullet  The Odes of Casimire. Trans. G. Hils. Augustan Reprint Society Publication #44. Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, U California. 1953. [Another edition--New York: Kraus Reprint Corp. 1967.]
list bullet  The Rose. [Musical score.] Trans. John Hervey. London: P.H. 1775.
list bullet  Wood-Notes: the Silviludia Poetica. Trans. unknown. Newcastle, Eng: M.A. Richardson. 1948.


Piotr Skarga (1536-1612)
list bullet & link  From Sermons to the Diet: "Eighth Sermon: On the Sixth Illness of the Commonwealth . . ." (excerpt). Trans. Michael J. Mikoś at Staropolska On-line.
list bullet & link  Eighth Sermon ("On the Sixth Illness of the Commonwealth . . .") from Sermons to the Diet. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Renaissance Literature: an Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, OH: Slavica. 1995. 123-135.



Jan III Sobieski (1629-1696)
list bullet  2 Letters. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature: An Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, Ohio/Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers. 1996.

  • "In the Visier's Tents, September 13 [1683], at Night." 132-135.
  • "Letters to Marysieńka: Pielaskowice, on Tuesday, [June 9, 1665]." 130-132.


Anna Stanisławska (1652-1700)
list bullet  No English translations of her work appear to be in print at this time.



Szymon Starowolski (circa 1588-1656)
list bullet  2 Pieces. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature: An Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, Ohio/Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers. 1996.

  • "Lament of the Distressed Mother, the Polish Crown." 86-88.
  • "Stanisław Żółkiewski" from Sarmatian Warriors. 83- 86.


Szymon Szymonowic (Simon Simonides) (1558-1629)
list bullet & link  5 Poems. Trans. several. Poets and Poetry of Poland: A Collection of Polish Verse. Ed. Paul Soboleski. Milwaukee, WI: Paul Soboleski Society. 1929.

  • "The Hare." 68.
  • "The Old Cook." 68.
  • "Sielanka I: Pastoral Eclogue - Daphnis." 61-63.
  • "Sielanka XIV: Witchcraft - The Jealous Wife." 64-68.
  • "The Wolf." 68.

list bullet & link  "The Reapers." Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Renaissance Literature: an Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, OH: Slavica. 1995. 262-269.
list bullet  "The Weddings Cakes" and "The Suitors" (excerpt). Trans. Bogdana Carpenter/John R. Carpenter. Monumenta Polonica: The First Four Centuries of Polish Poetry. A Bilingual Anthology. Ed. Bogdana Carpenter. Ann Arbor: [University of] Michigan Slavic Publications. 1989. 231-247.


Kasper Twardowski (circa 1592-1641)
list bullet  No English translations of his work appear to be in print at this time.



Samuel Twardowski (1600-1660)
list bullet  4 Poems. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature: An Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, Ohio/Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers. 1996.

  • Daphne Changed Into a Laurel Tree: selections. 96-100.
  • "Epitaph for Sir Samuel Twardowski, Polish Poet, Written by Himself in 1661." 102.
  • "Fair Pasqualina": selection. 100-101.
  • "To Marianna Twardowska: My Delightful Child, Only Daughter, Written by Her Father." 101-102.


Bartłomiej Zimorowic (1597-1673)
list bullet  3 Poems. Trans. Bogdana Carpenter/John R. Carpenter. Monumenta Polonica: The First Four Centuries of Polish Poetry. A Bilingual Anthology. Ed. Bogdana Carpenter. Ann Arbor: [University of] Michigan Slavic Publications. 1989. 293-301.

  • "Lasota."
  • "Miłosz."
  • "The Singers."


Szymon Zimorowic (1608-1629)
list bullet & link  4 Poems. Trans. several. Poets and Poetry of Poland: A Collection of Polish Verse. Ed. Paul Soboleski. Milwaukee, WI: Paul Soboleski Society. 1929.

  • "Sielanka" ["Maid of Roxolania fair! . . ."]. 72-73.
  • "Sielanka" ["Rosina, while dancing an orange convey'd . . ."]. 72.
  • "Sielanka" ["Zephyr! that gently o'er Ukraine art flying . . ."]. 71-72.
  • "Song." 70-1.

list bullet  5 Poems. Trans. Bogdana Carpenter/John R. Carpenter. Monumenta Polonica: The First Four Centuries of Polish Poetry. A Bilingual Anthology. Ed. Bogdana Carpenter. Ann Arbor: [University of] Michigan Slavic Publications. 1989. 279-291.
  • "Bineda."
  • "Halcydis."
  • "Helenora."
  • "Hiacynth."
  • "Hippolyte."

list bullet & link  "Cycerina." Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Renaissance Literature: an Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, OH: Slavica. 1995. 270-272.


Jan Żabczyc (?-1629)
list bullet  #20 and #34 from Angelic Symphonies. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature: An Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, Ohio/Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers. 1996. 70-73.



Stanisław Żółkiewski (1547-1620)
list bullet  "Beginning and Progress of the Muscovy War . . ."; excerpt. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature: An Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, Ohio/Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica Publishers. 1996. 59-65.
list bullet  Expedition to Moscow: a Memoir. Trans. M.W. Stephen. London: Polonica Publications. 1959.





COLLECTIONS / ANTHOLOGIES

list bullet   Monumenta Polonica: The First Four Centuries of Polish Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology. Ed. Bogdana Carpenter. Ann Arbor: [University of] Michigan Slavic Publications. 1989.

list bullet  Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature: An Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Slavica Publishers. 1996.

list bullet   Polish Literature from the Middle Ages to the End of the Eighteenth Century: a Bilingual Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Warsaw: Constans. 1999.

list bullet & link   Polish Renaissance Literature: an Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, OH: Slavica. 1995.



LITERARY HISTORY & CRITICISM

list bullet & link  Barańczak, Stanisław. "Baroque." From The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 3rd ed. Ed. Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1993. Institut Książki.

list bullet  Braun, Kazimierz. A Concise History of Polish Theater from the Eleventh to the Twentieth Centuries. Mellen Press. 2003.

list bullet & link  Mikoś, Michael J. "Baroque: Literary Background." From Polish Literature from the Middle Ages to the End of the Eighteenth Century. A Bilingual Anthology. Michael J. Mikoś. Warsaw: Constans. 1999. Staropolska On-line.





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