{"id":16229,"date":"2025-03-03T19:23:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T18:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/?p=16229"},"modified":"2025-04-24T15:26:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T13:26:03","slug":"jan-kochanowski-with-barry-keane-encounters-with-polish-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2025\/03\/03\/jan-kochanowski-with-barry-keane-encounters-with-polish-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan Kochanowski with Barry Keane \u2013 Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>S5E3 and all video recordings are available on&nbsp;our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@polishculturalinstituteinn5072\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:39px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Encounters with Polish Literature<\/strong>&nbsp;is a video series for anyone interested in literature and the culture of books and reading. Each month, host&nbsp;<strong>David A. Goldfarb<\/strong>&nbsp;will present a new topic in conversation with an expert on that author or book or movement in Polish literature.&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/encounters-with-polish-literature\">More about the Encounters with Polish Literature series<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;and the timeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Renaissance in Poland takes place largely in the sixteenth century when medieval manifestations of native West Slavic culture and poetic language meet the modern cosmopolitan humanist culture of Europe at large through the universal language of Latin. Italian scholars, architects, and artists come to Poland, particularly during the reign of Queen Bona Sforza and Zygmunt I August, but as early as the late fifteenth century with the arrival of Filippo Buonaccorsi, known as \u201cCallimachus,\u201d who served as a tutor and diplomat in the courts of King Kazimierz IV Jagiello\u0144czyk and Jan I, and imported classical literature as well. Poles are studying in Padua and Bologna, serving in legations to the Vatican, corresponding with Erasmus, participating in the Reformation, and traveling to Spain, France, and Holland. Poland had a number of important neolatin poets during this era who influenced poetic form in the vernacular language of Polish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most significant poet who wrote in both Latin and Polish during this time was Jan Kochanowski, best known for the <em>Laments<\/em> or <em>Threnodies<\/em> for his young daughter Urszula, and implicitly for his daughter Hannah, both of whom died in childhood, and for his play arguing for the virtues of the Polish democracy of the gentry, <em>The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this episode, the fiftieth episode of &#8222;Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature&#8221; we begin with an overview of some of the key poets of the Polish Renaissance, paying special attention to Miko\u0142aj Hussowczyk whose \u201cSong of the Bison\u201d has recently been published in a critical translation in English, and also to Miko\u0142aj S\u0119p-Szarzy\u0144ski, a metaphysical poet who represents the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque. Then we focus on Kochanowski\u2019s two major works. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:27px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jan Kochanowski and the Renaissance in Poland, recommended sources in English Translation and additional background:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Samuel Fishman, ed. <em>The Polish Renaissance in its European Context<\/em>. Foreword by Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz. PIASA. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988. [Best obtained at a research library or through interlibrary loan]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nicolaus Hussovianus. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arc-humanities.org\/9781641893367\/song-of-the-bison\/\">Song of the Bison<\/a><\/em>. Ed. and tr., Frederick J. Booth. Leeds: ARC Humanities Press, 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jan Kochanowski. <em>The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys<\/em>, tr. with intro and commentary by Barry Keane. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Sub Lupa, 2018. [Best obtained at a research library or through interlibrary loan, but in need of republication]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jan Kochanowski. <em>Grief \u2013 Anger \u2013 Acceptance: Jan Kochanowski\u2019s Threnodies<\/em>. Tr. with intro and notes by Barry Keane. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Sub Lupa, 2016. [Best obtained at a research library or through interlibrary loan, but in need of republication]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jan Kochanowski. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/[https:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/9780374524890\/Laments-Kochanowski-Jan-0374524890\/plp\">Laments, a bilingual edition<\/a><\/em>. Tr. Stanis\u0142aw Bara\u0144czak and Seamus Heaney. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1995. Also, a British <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/9780571175949\/Laments-Jan-Kochanowski-1530-1584-translated-0571175945\/plp\">edition<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jan Kochanowski. <em>\u201cThrenodies\u201d and \u201cThe Dismissal of the Greek Envoys.\u201d<\/em> Tr. with introduction and commentary by Barry Keane. Katowice: Biblioteka \u015al\u0105ska, 2001. (These translations have been updated in the 2016 and 2018 editions discussed in the episode). [Best obtained at a research library or through interlibrary loan]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jan Kochanowski. <em>Treny: The Laments of Kochanowski<\/em>. Tr. Adam Czerniawski. Foreword bz Donald Davie. Ed. and Annotated by Piotr Wilczek. Studies in Comparative Literature 6. Oxford: Legenda, 2001. [Best obtained at a research library or through interlibrary loan]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harold Segel. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/9780801422867\/Renaissance-Culture-Poland-Rise-Humanism-0801422868\/plp\">Renaissance Culture in Poland: The Rise of Humanism, 1470-1543<\/a><\/em>. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:31px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:29px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"671\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/03\/barry-671x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16230\" style=\"width:198px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/03\/barry-671x1024.jpg 671w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/03\/barry-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/03\/barry-768x1173.jpg 768w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/03\/barry.jpg 909w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 671px) 100vw, 671px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:29px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Barry Keane<\/strong> is a Professor in Comparative Studies in the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw. He has written widely in the fields of Classical Tradition, Irish (particularly James Joyce in recent years) and Scottish literature, and Polish literature, and his book publications include Polish-to-English translated and critical editions of Renaissance poet Jan Kochanowski (2018) and the Baroque poetess Anna Stanis\u0142awska (2016, 2021, due 2025) for Iter Press. He has also written: <em>Irish Drama in Poland. Staging and Reception<\/em> (2016) for Intellect Ltd., and bibliographical monographs on the Polish Renaissance and the Polish Baroque for Oxford Bibliographies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:29px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>David A. Goldfarb, Host &amp; Producer<br>Bartek Remisko, Curator and Executive Producer<br>Natalia Iyudin, Producer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-3 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-2 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p>Lead image: Jan Kochanowski by J\u00f3zef Buchminder and Aleksander Regulski, Public Domain<br>Guest photo: Image courtesy of Barry Keane<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:31px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"972\" height=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-10-at-10.12.09-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-10-at-10.12.09-AM.png 972w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-10-at-10.12.09-AM-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-10-at-10.12.09-AM-768x373.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 972px) 100vw, 972px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"224\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/02\/NTSH-A_LOGO_TRANSPARENT-1024x224.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10747\" style=\"width:388px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/02\/NTSH-A_LOGO_TRANSPARENT-1024x224.png 1024w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/02\/NTSH-A_LOGO_TRANSPARENT-300x66.png 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/02\/NTSH-A_LOGO_TRANSPARENT-768x168.png 768w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/02\/NTSH-A_LOGO_TRANSPARENT-1536x336.png 1536w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/02\/NTSH-A_LOGO_TRANSPARENT.png 1614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S5E3 and all video recordings are available on&nbsp;our YouTube. 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Each month, host David A. Goldfarb will present a new topic in conversation with an expert on that author or book or movement in Polish literature. More about the Encounters with Polish Literature series and the timeline.\\nThe Renaissance in Poland takes place largely in the sixteenth century when medieval manifestations of native West Slavic culture and poetic language meet the modern cosmopolitan humanist culture of Europe at large through the universal language of Latin. Italian scholars, architects, and artists come to Poland, particularly during the reign of Queen Bona Sforza and Zygmunt I August, but as early as the late fifteenth century with the arrival of Filippo Buonaccorsi, known as \u201cCallimachus,\u201d who served as a tutor and diplomat in the courts of King Kazimierz IV Jagiello\u0144czyk and Jan I, and imported classical literature as well. Poles are studying in Padua and Bologna, serving in legations to the Vatican, corresponding with Erasmus, participating in the Reformation, and traveling to Spain, France, and Holland. Poland had a number of important neolatin poets during this era who influenced poetic form in the vernacular language of Polish.\\nThe most significant poet who wrote in both Latin and Polish during this time was Jan Kochanowski, best known for the Laments or Threnodies for his young daughter Urszula, and implicitly for his daughter Hannah, both of whom died in childhood, and for his play arguing for the virtues of the Polish democracy of the gentry, The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys.\\nIn this episode, the fiftieth episode of \\\"Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature\\\" we begin with an overview of some of the key poets of the Polish Renaissance, paying special attention to Miko\u0142aj Hussowczyk whose \u201cSong of the Bison\u201d has recently been published in a critical translation in English, and also to Miko\u0142aj S\u0119p-Szarzy\u0144ski, a metaphysical poet who represents the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque. Then we focus on Kochanowski\u2019s two major works. \\nJan Kochanowski and the Renaissance in Poland, recommended sources in English Translation and additional background:\\nSamuel Fishman, ed. The Polish Renaissance in its European Context. Foreword by Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz. PIASA. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988. [Best obtained at a research library or through interlibrary loan]\\nNicolaus Hussovianus. Song of the Bison. Ed. and tr., Frederick J. Booth. Leeds: ARC Humanities Press, 2019. \\nJan Kochanowski. The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys, tr. with intro and commentary by Barry Keane. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Sub Lupa, 2018. [Best obtained at a research library or through interlibrary loan, but in need of republication]\\nJan Kochanowski. Grief \u2013 Anger \u2013 Acceptance: Jan Kochanowski\u2019s Threnodies. Tr. with intro and notes by Barry Keane. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Sub Lupa, 2016. [Best obtained at a research library or through interlibrary loan, but in need of republication]\\nJan Kochanowski. Laments, a bilingual edition. Tr. Stanis\u0142aw Bara\u0144czak and Seamus Heaney. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1995. Also, a British edition. \\nJan Kochanowski. \u201cThrenodies\u201d and \u201cThe Dismissal of the Greek Envoys.\u201d Tr. with introduction and commentary by Barry Keane. Katowice: Biblioteka \u015al\u0105ska, 2001. (These translations have been updated in the 2016 and 2018 editions discussed in the episode). [Best obtained at a research library or through interlibrary loan]\\nJan Kochanowski. Treny: The Laments of Kochanowski. Tr. Adam Czerniawski. Foreword bz Donald Davie. Ed. and Annotated by Piotr Wilczek. Studies in Comparative Literature 6. Oxford: Legenda, 2001. [Best obtained at a research library or through interlibrary loan]\\nHarold Segel. Renaissance Culture in Poland: The Rise of Humanism, 1470-1543. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1989.\\nBarry Keane is a Professor in Comparative Studies in the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw. He has written widely in the fields of Classical Tradition, Irish (particularly James Joyce in recent years) and Scottish literature, and Polish literature, and his book publications include Polish-to-English translated and critical editions of Renaissance poet Jan Kochanowski (2018) and the Baroque poetess Anna Stanis\u0142awska (2016, 2021, due 2025) for Iter Press. He has also written: Irish Drama in Poland. Staging and Reception (2016) for Intellect Ltd., and bibliographical monographs on the Polish Renaissance and the Polish Baroque for Oxford Bibliographies.\\nDavid A. 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Each month, host David A. Goldfarb will present a new topic in conversation with an expert on that author or book or movement in Polish literature. More about the Encounters with Polish Literature series and the timeline.\nThe Renaissance in Poland takes place largely in the sixteenth century when medieval manifestations of native West Slavic culture and poetic language meet the modern cosmopolitan humanist culture of Europe at large through the universal language of Latin. Italian scholars, architects, and artists come to Poland, particularly during the reign of Queen Bona Sforza and Zygmunt I August, but as early as the late fifteenth century with the arrival of Filippo Buonaccorsi, known as \u201cCallimachus,\u201d who served as a tutor and diplomat in the courts of King Kazimierz IV Jagiello\u0144czyk and Jan I, and imported classical literature as well. Poles are studying in Padua and Bologna, serving in legations to the Vatican, corresponding with Erasmus, participating in the Reformation, and traveling to Spain, France, and Holland. Poland had a number of important neolatin poets during this era who influenced poetic form in the vernacular language of Polish.\nThe most significant poet who wrote in both Latin and Polish during this time was Jan Kochanowski, best known for the Laments or Threnodies for his young daughter Urszula, and implicitly for his daughter Hannah, both of whom died in childhood, and for his play arguing for the virtues of the Polish democracy of the gentry, The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys.\nIn this episode, the fiftieth episode of \"Encounters with Polish and Ukrainian Literature\" we begin with an overview of some of the key poets of the Polish Renaissance, paying special attention to Miko\u0142aj Hussowczyk whose \u201cSong of the Bison\u201d has recently been published in a critical translation in English, and also to Miko\u0142aj S\u0119p-Szarzy\u0144ski, a metaphysical poet who represents the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque. Then we focus on Kochanowski\u2019s two major works. \nJan Kochanowski and the Renaissance in Poland, recommended sources in English Translation and additional background:\nSamuel Fishman, ed. The Polish Renaissance in its European Context. Foreword by Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz. PIASA. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988. [Best obtained at a research library or through interlibrary loan]\nNicolaus Hussovianus. Song of the Bison. Ed. and tr., Frederick J. Booth. Leeds: ARC Humanities Press, 2019. \nJan Kochanowski. The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys, tr. with intro and commentary by Barry Keane. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Sub Lupa, 2018. [Best obtained at a research library or through interlibrary loan, but in need of republication]\nJan Kochanowski. Grief \u2013 Anger \u2013 Acceptance: Jan Kochanowski\u2019s Threnodies. Tr. with intro and notes by Barry Keane. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Sub Lupa, 2016. [Best obtained at a research library or through interlibrary loan, but in need of republication]\nJan Kochanowski. Laments, a bilingual edition. Tr. Stanis\u0142aw Bara\u0144czak and Seamus Heaney. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1995. Also, a British edition. \nJan Kochanowski. \u201cThrenodies\u201d and \u201cThe Dismissal of the Greek Envoys.\u201d Tr. with introduction and commentary by Barry Keane. Katowice: Biblioteka \u015al\u0105ska, 2001. (These translations have been updated in the 2016 and 2018 editions discussed in the episode). [Best obtained at a research library or through interlibrary loan]\nJan Kochanowski. Treny: The Laments of Kochanowski. Tr. Adam Czerniawski. Foreword bz Donald Davie. Ed. and Annotated by Piotr Wilczek. Studies in Comparative Literature 6. Oxford: Legenda, 2001. [Best obtained at a research library or through interlibrary loan]\nHarold Segel. Renaissance Culture in Poland: The Rise of Humanism, 1470-1543. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1989.\nBarry Keane is a Professor in Comparative Studies in the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw. He has written widely in the fields of Classical Tradition, Irish (particularly James Joyce in recent years) and Scottish literature, and Polish literature, and his book publications include Polish-to-English translated and critical editions of Renaissance poet Jan Kochanowski (2018) and the Baroque poetess Anna Stanis\u0142awska (2016, 2021, due 2025) for Iter Press. He has also written: Irish Drama in Poland. Staging and Reception (2016) for Intellect Ltd., and bibliographical monographs on the Polish Renaissance and the Polish Baroque for Oxford Bibliographies.\nDavid A. 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