Treny, the Laments of Kochanowski

[David Kaiser]

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Treny
The Laments of Kochanowski
Translated by Adam Czerniawski
Foreword by Donald Davie
Edited and annotated by Piotr Wilczek
LEGENDA / STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 6
EHRC: Oxford, 2001 L 14.50 ($25.00 US) Paperback 94 pp
ISBN 1 900755 55 6 ISSN 1466-8173

Renaissance artists and poets readily commemorated the lives of the great,
but rarely mourned a child who could not even claim noble birth. Yet the
sixteenth-century masterpiece Treny stems from the Polish poet Jan
Kochanowski's intense grief over the death of his little daughter Orszula,
'a delightful, radiant, extraordinary child', who died before she was three.
The laments stand as Kochanowski's crowning achievement, and the first
Polish work to equal the great poems of western Europe. In a cycle by turn
reflective, despairing and, finally, hesitantly accepting, a father evokes
the unfulfilled promise of a life tragically cut short.

The work's disarming simplicity and enduring passion, supported by an
intellectually impressive structure, are fully realized in translation by
Adam Czerniawski, the distinguished contemporary Polish poet. The English
translation is accompanied by the original Polish text, edited by
Renaissance scholar Piotr Wilczek, and a foreword by Donald Davie. This
important edition will prove of value to scholars and teachers of Slavonic
literature, and to all lovers of poetry.

LEGENDA is the imprint of the European Humanities Research Centre of the
University of Oxford. The series Studies in Comparative Literature is
published in association with the British Comparative Literature Association

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