The MHRA is pleased to announce the publication of Vol. 11 in the Critical Texts series: an edition of English Translations, Paraphrases, and Emulations of the Poetry of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, prepared by Krzysztof Fordonski and Piotr Urbanski.
Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595-1640) was known in his lifetime as the Christian Horace. He was one of the most famous Neo-Latin poets of the Baroque, widely read, commented and translated throughout Europe. Sarbiewski was translated by a variety of poets ranging from Hills to such famous authors as Vaughan, Burns and Coleridge. This edition includes all known English translations of Sarbiewski’s poems. The texts are accompanied by an introduction presenting the biography and works of Sarbiewski, as well as a short critical analysis of the translations included in the volume.