Stanisław Trembecki

Portrait by Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder

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]

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)