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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0374524890
ISBN-13: 9780374524890
Nov 1996
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Language: English |
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Synopsis
A series of poems by the great 16th-century Polish poet Jan Kochanowski on the death of his young daughter. Translated by Stansilaw Baranczak and Seamus Heaney, these poems express grief, humiliation, and religious doubt, themes that prefigure modern sensibilities and dilemma.
| Size | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.2 in | | Weight: | 4.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"'Laments' is a sequence of 19 poems about the feelings of the poet in response to misfortune, the loss of his very young daughter, Ursula. The eternal question "Why?" comes from a Christian whose imagination has been formed by humanism and religious controversy, and who is already touched by doubts that could be called modern....The 19 poems of 'Laments', though rhymed, seem a spontaneous expression of grief; they are in fact a carefully arranged sequence written by a man whose extensive reading informs the whole."
New York Review of Books - Czeslaw Milosz (02/15/1996)
"Among the benefits of living in a multicultural era, all obvious excesses aside, lies in a new, even unprecedented accessibility to great art from unfamiliar times, authors and places. Unfamiliar, that is, for English-speaking Americans. Yet one need only read the very first poem--a trend or lament for his dead daughter--by the 16th-century Polish poet Jan Kochanowski to know that here is a master of elegy, a human being whose voice can touch the heart even in translation."
Milosz
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