Stanisław Trembecki

Stanisław Trembecki (8 May 1739 – 12 December 1812) was a Polish Enlightenment poet and translator, well known for his poems Na dzień siódmy września and Nadgrobek hajduka that are said to have started a new trend in Polish political lyric poetry.^[1] He was also the poet laureate in the court of Tulchyn, now in Ukraine.^[2]

Portrait by Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder

Trembecki wrote odes, fables, and libertine poems in additional to his classical style poetry praising kings and other nobility. He also translated Horace and Tacitus. Trembecki was known as a drunk and a Don Juan and fought a number of duels throughout Europe.^[3]

In his writings, Polish poet Apollo Korzeniowski recalls an episode where an obscure Rococo poet, Wojciech (Adalbert) Mier, won Trembecki's translation of the fourth song of Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered in a game of cards, which Mier then published under his own name.^[4]

References

1. Milosz, Czeslaw (1983-10-24). The History of Polish Literature, Updated Edition. University of California Press. pp. 181–183. ISBN 978-0-520-04477-7.
2. Montalk, Stephanie De (2001). Unquiet World: The Life of Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk. Victoria University Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-86473-414-3.
3. Stone, Daniel (2001). The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386-1795. University of Washington Press. p. 321. ISBN 978-0-295-98093-5.
4. Yearbook of Conrad Studies (Poland) Vol. V 2010. Wydawnictwo UJ. p. 12. ISBN 978-83-233-3263-3.

External links

• Media related to Stanisław Trembecki at Wikimedia Commons
•  Polish Wikisource has original text related to this article: Autor:Stanisław Trembecki
• Stanisław Trembecki in Virtual Library of Polish Literature (in Polish)