Kasprowicz, Jan

Kasprowicz, Jan

▪ Polish writer
born December 12, 1860, Szymborze, Prussia [now in Poland]
died August 1, 1926, Poronin, Poland

      Polish poet and translator who made an enormous range of classical and modern European literature available to Polish readers.

      Kasprowicz was born to an illiterate peasant's family, but through his hard work, perseverance, and ambition he was able to study at universities, first in Leipzig and then in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland). Eventually he moved to Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) to escape Prussian persecution for his radical activities. He attended the university there and later worked as a journalist until, in 1909, he became a professor of comparative literature at the University of Lwów (now the University of Lviv).

      Kasprowicz's earliest poetry, depicting the suffering, poverty, and ignorance of the peasants, is marked by a concern for social justice. Subsequently, in Krzak dzikiej róży (1898; “The Wild Rose Bush”), he lyrically describes the countryside of Poland's Tatra Mountains. Ginącemu światu (1901; “To a Dying World”) is a cycle of poems that expresses his concern with humanity's sufferings and metaphysical longings. The cycle used techniques that anticipate the early poetry of T.S. Eliot (Eliot, T.S.): free verse, quotations, and a style that progresses by associations, rather than by logical connections. His later works, such as Księga ubogich (1916; “Book of the Poor”), reveal a mellowing temper and a newfound religious faith. The astonishing range of Kasprowicz's translations includes the complete works of William Shakespeare, Aeschylus, and Euripides and works by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Blake, Robert Browning, and William Butler Yeats. He also translated voluminously from German, French, and Italian.

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