Polish swan triumphant : essays on Polish and comparative literature from Kochanowski to Norwid / by George Gömöri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gömöri, George, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Polish literature.

Polish poetry.

Polish people in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (167 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This present collection of George Gömöri's essays covers several centuries of Polish literature and its reception abroad. The first three essays are devoted to Jan Kochanowski, the greatest poet of the Polish Renaissance, followed by shorter pieces on Stefan Batory, King of Poland from 1576 to 1586, whom Montaigne thought to be 'one of the greatest princes of our age'. This is followed by a comparative essay on the Pole Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski and the Hungarian poet Bálint Balassi, both import...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; ORIGINAL PLACE OF PUBLICATION

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 1, 2015).

ISBN:

1-4438-5424-7

OCLC:

868488988