[Gutenberg 27179] • Laments
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- Authors
- Kochanowski, Jan
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Tags
- classics , bereavement -- poetry , poetry
- ISBN
- 9780374182908
- Date
- 1580-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.04 MB
- Lang
- en
The work of one of the greatest poets of the sixteenth century, "Laments" has been beautifully rendered by contemporary poets Stanislaw Baranczak and Seamus Heaney. This poignant series of poems on the death of Kochanowski's young daughter is surprisingly intimate and domestic in nature, expressing a candid grief and an undeniably modern sense of humiliation and religious doubt.