Polish literature: Quick Facts

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Stanisław Lem

Polish author

Adam Mickiewicz

Polish poet

Olga Tokarczuk

Polish author

Czesław Miłosz

Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat

Maria Dąbrowska

Polish author and critic

Adam Zagajewski

Polish writer

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Polish writer

Jerzy Andrzejewski

Polish author

Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz

Polish writer

Juliusz Słowacki

Polish author

Stefan Żeromski

Polish author

Witold Gombrowicz

Polish author

Adam Asnyk

Polish author

Kazimierz Brandys

Polish author

Zbigniew Herbert

Polish author

Kraszewski, detail of an oil painting by X.J. Kaniewski; in the National Museum, Warsaw

Józef Ignacy Kraszewski

Polish writer

Władysław Broniewski

Polish author

Wisława Szymborska

Polish poet

Jan Kochanowski

Polish poet

Aleksander Fredro

Polish dramatist

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

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