Laments

Jan Kochanowski

Original title: Treny

Also published as: Treny

earliest edition we have, 1980 Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1983 239 pages

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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 and realism for contemporary readers. The poems express a candid grief,...

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This book in English

Stanisław Barańczak 2 printings we hold · 1995–1996 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Editions we hold

Treny edition · 2001 · Legenda · 74 pages
Treny edition · 1996 · Wydawn. Uniwersytetu Śląskiego · 172 pages
Laments edition · 1996 · Noonday Press · 9780374524890
Laments edition · 1995 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 48 pages · 9780374182908
Laments edition · 1995 · Faber and Faber · 53 pages
Treny edition · 1983 · Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich · 239 pages
Treny edition · 1980 · Czytelnik · 26 pages

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