by
B. Carpenter
Product
Details
 |
ISBN: |
0-930042-44-1 |
| Format: |
Hardcover,
567pp |
| Pub.
Date: |
1989
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| Edition
Description: |
First
Edition |
| Series: |
MSM
#31 |
| |
$27.50
USD
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Reviews
This
book cannot help but be welcomed with outbursts of euphoria
by anyone who has ever faced the unenviable task of
teaching a course in Polish Literature before the Nineteenth
Century to a class of American students with no reading
knowledge of Polish. A considerable achievement and
a most needed, welcome, and useful publication...this
single volume has already become a cornerstone of any
reading list for an English-speaking student of Polish
literature.
- Stanislaw Baranczak in The Polish Review
In
Monumenta Polonica we have at last a comprehensive
anthology of old Polish poetry in English which will
be used with considerable profit for many years to come.
- George Gomori in The Slavonic Review
The
coverage of the Carpenter anthology is splendid... The
selections are very good, the translations generally
reliable and the ancillary material perfectly adequate.
- Harold B. Segel in The Slavic Review
Description
The
aim of the bilingual anthology is to present the finest
poems written during the first four centuries of Polish
poetry. This period begins with earliest Polish poetic
text, "Bogurodzica" - the existing manuscript
dates from 1407 though the poem was composed considerably
earlier - and ends with poems written toward the end
of the eighteenth century. These four hundred years
saw a remarkable flowering of literature. The anthology
is intended both for the genera reader interested in
poetry, and also for the student of Polish literature.
It is divided into four sections: the Middle Ages, the
Renaissance, the Baroque, and the Enlightenment. Each
section is preceded by a short introduction whose purpose
is to supply the necessary culture, literary, and historical
background so the anthology can be enjoyed by a reader
unfamiliar with Polish literature.
The
Polish poetry from the Renaissance and following centuries
is a significant and vital part of European poetry.
In the context of Slavic cultures, it stands out as
particularly advanced, both artistically and intellectually.
The first four centuries of Polish poetry are essential
for the understanding of what followed: they are the
basis upon which nineteeth and twentieth century Polish
poets have built.
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