Kochanowski/Heaney
A heartbreaking and measured report of grief following the death of Ursula, the two-and-a-half-year-old daughter of Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584), meticulously and marvellously translated by Seamus Heaney and Stanislaw Baranczak, former colleagues at Harvard University. Revised edition, with a new preface by Seamus Heaney.
‘a sequence of poems which occupy as cherished and foundational a place in Polish literature as Shakespeare’s sonnets in English . . . the matter of the work is weighted with pain but the mode of expression is utterly buoyant.’
— Seamus Heaney
€11.50 pb
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