Laments
Jan Kochanowski
80 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 057117597X
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Language: English
Publish: 816854400000
16th CenturyClassicsDeathFictionMythologyPoetryPolandPolish LiteratureSchool
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.