Antanas Baranauskas

Antanas Baranauskas (born Jan. 17, 1835, Anykščiai, Lithuania, Russian Empire—died Nov. 26, 1902, Seinai) was a Roman Catholic bishop and poet who wrote one of the greatest works in Lithuanian literature, Anykyščių šilelis (1858–59; The Forest of Anykščiai). The 342-line poem, written in East High Lithuanian dialect, describes the former beauty of a pine grove near his village and its despoliation under the Russians (“Hills with tree-stumps, bare slopes! Who would believe in your former...