POLISH LITERATURE IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION

KEY TO SYMBOLS USED IN ENTRIES

Anonymous -- "The Beggar's Tragedy" (1551)
No English translations of this work appear to be available at this time.

Anonymous -- Owlglass Tales (16th century)
  2 Owlglass Tales. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Renaissance Literature: an Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, OH: Slavica. 1995. 79-82.

• "Owlglass, Facetious and Amusing."
• "How Owlglass in Prague, in Bohemia, Disputed with Learned Doctors at the University."

Anonymous -- Pilgrimage Diary (1595)
  Trans. Kate Wilson. In Orientations: An Anthology of East European Travel Writing, ca. 1550-2000. Ed. Wendy Bracewell. New York: Central European University Press. 2009. 23-24.

Anonymous -- "A Soldier Goes Riding Through Woods" (16th c.)
  Trans. Bogdana Carpenter/John R. Carpenter. Monumenta Polonica: The First Four Centuries of Polish Poetry. A Bilingual Anthology. Ed. Bogdana Carpenter. Ann Arbor: [University of] Michigan Slavic Publications. 1989. 121-125.

Marcin Bielski (1495-1575)
  2 Selections. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Renaissance Literature: an Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, OH: Slavica. 1995. 74-78.

• "Death and Funeral of Zygmunt the Old" (excerpt) from A Chronicle of the Whole World.
• "Parliament of Women": excerpt.

Jan Dantyszek (Dantiscus) (1485-1548)
No English translations of his work appear to be available at this time.

Anzelm Gostomski (1508-1588)
No English translations of his work appear to be available at this time.

Wawrzyniec Goślicki (Laurentius Goslicius) (1537-1607)
  The Accomplished Senator. Trans. Oldisworth. 1733. Google e-book.
  The Accomplished Senator. Trans. Oldisworth (1733). Miami, FL: American Institute of Polish Culture. nd.
  The Accomplished Senator. In Two Books. Trans. William Oldisworth. London. 1733.
  The Accomplished Senator: excerpt from Book I. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Renaissance Literature: an Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, OH: Slavica. 1995. 118-122.
  The Accomplished Senator, excerpt from Book I. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś at Staropolska On-line.
  A Common-wealth of Good Counsaile Or, Policies Chiefe Counseller Portraited into Two Bookes . . .. London: Printed by Richard] B[radock] for N. Lyng. 1607. Available via Proquest's Early English Books Online (library subscription service).
  The Counsellor: Exactly Pourtraited in Two Bookes, Wherein the Offices of Magistrates, the Happie Life of Subjects, and the Felicitie of Common-Weales Is Pleasantly and Pithilie Discoursed . . .. London: Imprinted by R. Bradocke. 1979, 1598. Also available via Proquest's Early English Books Online (library subscription service).
  The Sage Senator: or, An Exact Character of a Prudent Statesman: . . . London: Printed J. Daniel. 1660. Available via Proquest's Early English Books Online (library subscription service).
   The Sage Senator Delineated, or, A Discourse of the Qualifications, Endowments, Parts, External and Internal, Office, Duty and Dignity of a Perfect Politician with a Discourse of Kingdoms, Republiques, and States-Popular, as also of Kings and Princes: to Which Is Annexed, The New Models of Modern Policy. Trans. (?) J.G. [John Grimefield]. London: 1660. Microfilm reproduction of original in Yale University Library (Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1963). Also available via Proquest's Early English Books Online (library subscription service).

Łukasz Górnicki (1527-1603)
  The Polish Courtier: excerpt. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Renaissance Literature: an Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, OH: Slavica. 1995. 112-117.

Jakub Górski (c. 1525-1585)
No English translations of his work appear to be available at this time.

Sebastian Grabowiecki (1540-1607)
  4 Poems. Trans. Bogdana Carpenter/John R. Carpenter. Monumenta Polonica: The First Four Centuries of Polish Poetry. A Bilingual Anthology. Ed. Bogdana Carpenter. Ann Arbor: [University of] Michigan Slavic Publications. 1989. 213-225.

• VII: "My life, measured by a brief span as with a rope . . ."
• XCVII: "Like the ocean that has enormous depths . . ."
• CXII: "My Lord, O my Lord, how patient you are with me . . ."
• CLXXV: "When the quiet night is cooling its shadows . . ."

  4 Poems. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Renaissance Literature: an Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, OH: Slavica. 1995. 250-252.

• Spiritual Rhyme VII ["My life measured by a brief span, as with a twine . . ."].
• Spiritual Rhyme XI ["The Lord--my light, whom I will imitate . . ."].
• Spiritual Rhyme LXXXII ["O God, have mercy, Lord, show compassion . . ."].
• Spiritual Rhyme CXII, "Octonarius."

  "Spiritual Rhymes--#7." Trans. Michael J. Mikoś at Staropolska On-line.

Bartłomiej Groicki (c. 1534-1605)
No English translations of his work appear to be available at this time.

Mikołaj Hussowski (Hussowczyk, Hussovianus, Gusowski) (circa 1475 - after 1533)
  Poem on Bison": excerpts. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Renaissance Literature: an Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, OH: Slavica. 1995. 60-61.
  Excerpts from "A Poem on Bison." Trans. Michael J. Mikoś at Staropolska On-line.

Klemens Janicjusz (Janicki) (1516-1543)
  Elegy VII: "About Myself to Posterity." Trans. Michael J. Mikoś at Staropolska On-line.
  3 Poems. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Renaissance Literature: an Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, OH: Slavica. 1995. 62-68.

• "Amo."
• "Andrzej Krzycki, a Pole."
• Elegy VII: "About Myself to Posterity."

Jan of Kijany (early 16th century)
  2 "New Owlglass" Poems. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Renaissance Literature: an Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, OH: Slavica. 1995. 83.

• "Hares."
• "Wolves."

Sebastian Klonowic (1545-1602)
  3 Poems. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Renaissance Literature: an Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, OH: Slavica. 1995.

• "Judas's Bag": excerpt. 259-261.
• Lament V ["Who is so audacious, tell me, who has the face . . ."]. 253-254.
• "Sailing, that is Navigating Boats on the Vistula and the Rivers that Flow into It": excerpt. 255-259.

  The Boatman: a Voyage down the Vistula from Warsaw to the Green Gate of Danzig: a Poem. Trans. Marion Moore Coleman. Ed. Mary Elizabeth Osborn. Cambridge Springs, PA: Alliance College. 1958.
  "Flis"; excerpt. Trans. Anne Marek. The Polish Land: An Anthology in Prose and Verse. Ed. Marion Moore Coleman. Compiled by Klub Polski of Columbia University. Trenton, NJ: White Eagle Publishing. 1943. 79-80.
  "Merits of Poland." Trans. several. Poets and Poetry of Poland: A Collection of Polish Verse. Ed. Paul Soboleski. Milwaukee, WI: Paul Soboleski Society. 1929. 56-57.

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  "The Raftsman"; excerpts. Trans. Marion Moore Coleman. Monumenta Polonica: The First Four Centuries of Polish Poetry. A Bilingual Anthology. Ed. Bogdana Carpenter. Ann Arbor: [University of] Michigan Slavic Publications. 1989. 183-191.
  A Sampling of Judas Lore in Poland (Translation of the Preface and Dedication of Worek Judaszów by Sebastian Fabian Klonowic). Trans. Marion Moore Coleman. Cambridge Springs, PA: Alliance College. 1960.

Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584)
  2 Laments (Treny). Trans. Leonard Kress. Mayday Magazine 3 (Fall 2010).

•   Tren #1.
•   Tren #7.

  3 Poems. Trans. Adam Czerniawski (included in Czerniawski's article "Not Lost in Translation"). Toronto Slavic Quarterly 10 (Fall 2004).

• Tren VII ("Pitiful garments, lamentable dresses . . .").
• Tren VIII ("Your flight, my dearest, caused . . .").
• Tren X ("My fair Orszula, where have you fled? . . .").

  3 Poems. Trans. Leonard Kress; accompanied by an essay, "A Note on Translating Jan Kochanowski's Threnodies." Artful Dodge. [These works are below two poems by Leonard Kress.]

• "A Note on Translating Jan Kochanowski's Threnodies."
• Threnody 5 ("Like a tiny olive tree . . .").
• Threnody 6 ("My Slavic Sappho, you stood to inherit . . .").
• Threnody 14 ("If only the gate where Orpheus descended . . .").

  3 Poems. Selected Masterpieces of Polish Poetry. Trans. Jarosław Zawadzki. Shenzhen, 2007.

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• "God's Plaything Man." 16-17.
• "On Health." 14-15.
• "Song XXV." 12-13.

  4 Poems. World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time. Ed. Katharine Washburn and John S. Major. New York: Norton. 1998.

• "I'd Buy You Wisdom" from Laments. Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Seamus Heaney. 571.
• "In Defence of Drunkards." Trans. Jerzy Peterkiewicz and Burns Singer. 570.
• "To A Mathematician." Trans. Jerzy Peterkiewicz and Burns Singer. 570.
• "Where is That Gate for Grief" from Laments. Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Seamus Heaney. 571.

  5 Laments. Trans. Dorothea Prall. The Slavonic Review 4.11 (Dec. 1925).

• Lament II. 317.
• Lament III. 318.
• Lament V. 318.
• Lament VII. 318-319.
• Lament X. 319.

  6 Poems. Treasury of Polish Love: Poems, Quotations, Proverbs in Polish and English. Ed. Mirosław Lipiński. New York: Hippocrene. 1995.

• "Love." Trans. Mirosław Lipiński. 10-11.
• "Song of the Fourth Maiden." Trans. Marjorie Beatrice Peacock and G.R. Noyes. 12-15.
• "Song of the Tenth Maiden." Trans. Marjorie Beatrice Peacock and G.R. Noyes. 16-19.
• "To a Fair Young Maid." Trans. Mirosław Lipiński. 10-11.
• "To a Maid." Trans. Mirosław Lipiński. 10-11.
• "To Love." Trans. Mirosław Lipiński. 8-9.

  7 Poems. from Specimens of the Polish Poets; with Notes and Observations on the Literature of Poland. Trans. and Ed. John Bowring. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. 1827.

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• Pieśn (Song) XIII. 55.
• "Tales of St. John's Eve, or Sobolka Fire." 56-66.
• Thren I. 49-50.
• Thren VII. 50-51.
• Thren X. 52-53.
• Thren XIII. 53-54.

  7 Poems on Jan Rybicki's Modern Polish Poetry website.

•   Lament IX ("I'd buy you, Wisdom, with all of the world's gold . . ."). Trans. Seamus Heaney.
•   "The Muse."Trans. Michael J. Mikoś.
•   Song II ("The heart swells . . ."). Trans. Michael J. Mikoś.
•   Song IX ("We want to make merry . . .").Trans. Michael J. Mikoś.
•   Song XXIV ("I hear the clock striking . . ."). Trans. Michael J. Mikoś.
•   Song XXV ("What do you want of us . . ."). Trans. Michael J. Mikoś.
•   9 Trifles. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś.
  • "On Health" from Book III.
  • "On Human Life" ("Everything we think is but a trifle . . .") from Book I.
  • "On Human Life" ("Eternal Thought . . .") from Book II.
  • "On the Linden Tree" from Book II.
  • "On my House at Czarnolas" from Book III.
  • "On Trifles" from Book I.
  • "To the Mountains and Forests" from Book III.
  • "To Sleep" from Book II.
  • "To His Lady" from Book I.

  8 Laments. Trans. Adam Czerniawski. Moved by the Spirit: An Anthology of Polish Religious Poetry. Ed. Adam Czerniawski. Belfast: Lapwing. 2010. In Polish and English.

• Tren III. 14.
• Tren VII. 15-16.
• Tren VIII. 17.
• Tren X. 18-19.
• Tren XI. 20-21.
• Tren XII. 22-23.
• Tren XVII. 24-27.
• Tren XVIII. 28-29.

  9 Poems. Trans. several. Poets and Poetry of Poland: A Collection of Polish Verse. Ed. Paul Soboleski. Milwaukee, WI: Paul Soboleski Society. 1929.

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• Canto XIII; excerpt. 46.
• "Excerpts." 53.
• "The Greatness of God." 42-43.
• "Tales of St. John's Eve; or Sobotka Fire." 47-53.
• Thren [Lament] I. 43.
• Thren VII. 44.
• Thren IX. 44.
• Thren X. 45.
• Thren XIII. 45-46.

  14 pieces. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś at Staropolska On-line.

• "The Muse": excerpt.
• "On Human Life" ["Everything we think is but a trifle . . ."].
• "On Human Life" ["Eternal Thought, existing longer than Time's span . . ."].
• "On Trifles."
• Song ["What do You want from us, Lord, for your lavish gifts . . ."].
• Song I.II ["The heart swells, when we look at this season . . ."].
• Song I.IX ["We want to make merry . . ."].
• Song I.XXIV ["I hear the clock striking . . ."].
• Song II.VII ["The sun is burning . . ."]
• Song II.VIII ["Do not turn grey, Nicholas . . ."]
• Song II.XXIV ["Endowed with a pinion that is mighty and rare . . ."].
• "Saint John's Eve Song About Saturday Festive Night": excerpts.
• "To the Mountains."
• "A Treatise on Virtue and Friendship."

  21 Poems. [Several translators.] Monumenta Polonica: The First Four Centuries of Polish Poetry. A Bilingual Anthology. Ed. Bogdana Carpenter. Ann Arbor: [University of] Michigan Slavic Publications. 1989. 127-181.
  60 Pieces. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Renaissance Literature: an Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, OH: Slavica. 1995.

• The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys. 212-239.
• Laments: the dedication to Ursula Kochanowska, the 19 Laments, and the epitaph to Hanna Kochanowska. 180-211.
• Latin Elegy VI ("It was an unfortunate day and hour for me . . ."). 154-155.
• Latin Epigrams
  • #7: "On Petrarch's Writings." 153.
  • #89: "To Łkusz Górnicki." 153.
  • #109: "On Homer." 154.
  
  
• "The Muse": excerpt. 155-156.
• Psalm 91 from David's Psalter ("He that seeks refuge in His Lord's safeguard . . ."). 178-179.
• Songs
  • Book I, Song II ("The heart swells, when we look at this season . . ."). 165-166.
  • Book I, Song VII ("There is no other way, it's time to go . . ."). 166-167.
  • Book I, Song IX ("We want to make merry . . ."). 167-168.
  • Book I, Song XXIV ("I hear the clock striking . . ."). 168-170.
  • Book II, Song VII ("The sun is burning, earth turns truly to ashes . . ."). 170.
  • Book II, Song VIII ("Do not turn gray, Nicholas, with worry . . ."). 170-171.
  • Book II, Song XXIV ("Endowed with a pinion that is mighty and rare . . ."). 171-173.
  • "Saint John's Eve Song about Saturday Festive Night." 173-177.
  • "Song" ("What do You want from us, Lord, for Your lavish gifts? . . ."). 177-178.
  
  
• Trifles
  • Book I, #3: "On Human Life." 156-157.
  • Book I, #21: "On a Pious Woman." 157.
  • Book I, #53: "On a Mathematician." 157.
  • Book I, #57: "On Drunkards." 157.
  • Book I, #79: "On a Spanish Doctor." 157-158.
  • Book I, #82: "On Youth." 158.
  • Book I, #83: "On Old Age." 158.
  • Book I, #87: "On Trifles." 158.
  • Book I, #97: "To His Lady." 158-159.
  • Book I, #98: "On Love." 159.
  • Book I, #101: "On Human Life." 159.
  • Book II, #6: "On the Linden Tree." 160.
  • Book II, #19: "On a Chaplain." 160.
  • Book II, #37: "To Sleep." 160-161.
  • Book II, #66: "To Hanna." 161.
  • Book II, #87: "To a Doctor." 161.
  • Book III, #1: "To the Mountains and Forests." 161-163.
  • Book III, #17: "On my Poems." 163.
  • Book III, #37: "On my House at Czarnolas." 163.
  • Book III, #38: "To the Lord." 163.
  • Book III, #50: "To a Guest." 164.
  • Book III, #54: "On Health." 164.
  • Book III, #72: "Prayer for Rain." 164-165.
  • Book III, #82: "To a Maid." 165.
  
  
• "A Treatise on Virtue." 239-241.

  The Dismissal of the Grecian Envoys. Trans. Charles S. Kraszewski. Studio City, CA: Players Press. 1994.
  The Dismissal of the Grecian Envoys. Trans. George Rapall Noyes; versified by Ruth Earl Merrill. Berkeley: U California P. 1918.
  The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys. Trans. Barry Keane. Szczecin: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecinskiego. 1999.
  The Envoys. Trans. Bill Johnston. Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka. 2007.
  "Kochanowski's Laments. [Laments 6, 7, and 8]" Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Seamus Heaney. Poetry Review 85.2 (Summer 1995): 30-31.
  "Lament I." Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Seamus Heaney. Irish Times 1 July 1995: 8.
  "Lament 1." Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Seamus Heaney. The Threepenny Review No.63 (Autumn 1995): 13.
  "Lament 16; Lament 2" Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Seamus Heaney. Partisan Review 62.3 (Summer 1995): 443-445.
  "Lament 19 or: A Dream." Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Seamus Heaney. Harvard Review No.7 (Fall 1994): 7-10.
  Laments. Trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Seamus Heaney. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1995.[also New York: Noonday Press. 1996. and rev. ed., Loughcrew, IRL: Gallery Press. 2009.]
  Laments, 2nd ed.. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Lublin: Norbertinum. 1998.
  Laments. Ed. and trans. Dorothea Prall. Berkeley: U California P. 1920. Also:

•   Project Gutenberg E-book.
•   Columbia University Libraries Digital Collections E-book.
•   Internet Archive E-book.
•   LibriVox audiobook. Read in Polish and English. Also at Internet Archive.

  "The Lime Tree." Trans. M. A. Michael. A Polish Anthology. Ed. T. M. Filip. London: Duckworth, 1944, 1947. 46-49. [Translated into prose.] In Polish and English.
  Poems. New York: AMS Press. 1976. Reprint.
  Poems. Ed. and trans. George Rapall Noyes; trans. Dorothea Prall Radin. Berkeley: U California P. 1928.
  St. John's Eve. Trans. George Rapall Noyes and Marjorie Beatrice Peacock. Slavonic Review (Dec. 1927): 401-414.
  "Sweet Bonds of Love." Trans. Freeda Ruby and George Rapall Noyes. Slavonic Review 9 (June 1930): 204.
  Threnodies and The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys. Trans. Barry Keane. Katowice: Biblioteka Slaska. 2001.
  "The Threnodies of Jan Kochanowski": excerpts from Jan Kochanowski, Threnodies and The Dismissal of the Greek Envois by Barry Keane.

• Threnody I
• Threnody III
• Threnody VI
• Threnody XII
• Threnody XIX, or: A Dream

  Threnody 14. Trans. Leonard Kress. Verse Daily. 2003.
  "To His Lady." Trans. unknown. Slavonic Review 14 (July 1935): 1-2.
  "To Prądnik": Ode X. Trans. Marion M. Coleman. The American Slavic and East European Review 5.3-4 (Nov. 1946): 121.
  "A Treatise on Virtue and Friendship." Trans. Cedric Spak. The Sarmatian Review 13.3 (Sept. 1993).
  Treny: the Laments of Kochanowski. Trans. Adam Czerniawski. Oxford, UK: European Humanities Research Centre. 2001.
  "Treny/Laments: Stanislaw Baranczak and Seamus Heaney Translate Three Laments by the the [sic] Sixteenth-Century Polish Poet Jan Kochanowski." Graph. [Dublin] 2.1 (1995): 38-41.
  Treny [Laments]. Trans. Adam Czerniawski. Brindin Press. In Polish and English.
  Treny. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś ed. Jolanta Klecel. Warsaw: Constans. 1995. Polish and English.

Mikołaj Kopernik [Nicolas Copernicus] (1473-1543)
  Complete Works. 4 vols. Trans. unknown. London: Macmillan. 1972.
  De Revolutionibus (On the Revolutions). Trans. Edward Rosen. Baltimore: John Hopkins U P. n.d. E-book.
  De Revolutionibus, Preface and Book I. Trans. John F. Dobson and Selig Brodetsky. London: Royal Astronomical Society. 1947.
  "De Revolutionibus Orbium Caelestium." [On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres]. Trans. Charles Glenn Wallis. In The Almagest. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica. 1955, 1952. Also: 2nd. ed. 1990.
  Minor Works. Trans. Edward Rosen and Erna Hilfstein. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U P. 1992.
  Minor Works. Trans. Edward Rosen and Erna Hilfstein. Ed. Paweł Czartoryski. London: Macmillan. 1985.
  On the Revolution of Heavenly Spheres. Trans. Charles Glenn Wallis. Amherst, NY: Prometheus. 1995. 1939.
  On the Revolutions: excerpt. Trans. Michael J. Mikoś. Polish Renaissance Literature: an Anthology. Ed. Michael J. Mikoś. Columbus, OH: Slavica. 1995. 86-91.
  On the Revolutions. Trans. Edward Rosen. Ed. Jerzy Dobrzycki. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U P. 1992. 1978.
  On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres. Trans. Charles Glenn Wallis in The Illustrated On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy. Ed. Stephen Hawking. Philadelphia: Running Press. 2004. 23-50.
  On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres. Trans. Charles Glenn Wallis. Ed. Stephen Hawking. Philadelphia: Running Press. 2002.
  On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres. Trans. A[listair] M[atheson] Duncan. New York: Barnes & Noble. 1976.
  "The Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres." The Portable Renaissance Reader. Ed. James Bruce Ross and Mary M. McLaughlin. New York: Penguin. 1977. Reprint. 589-592.
  Three Copernican Treatises: the Commentariolus of Copernicus, the Letter against Werner, the Narratio Prima of Rheticus. Trans. Edward Rosen. New York: Columbia U P. 1939. Also: 2nd rev. ed. New York: Dover. 1959. and 3rd. rev. ed. New York: Octagon. 1971.

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