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Tymon Zaborowski (1799–1828) was a Polish
Tymon Zaborowski (1799–1828) was a Polish poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or w ...
. He was influenced at the beginning of his writing career by classicism
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, then by Romanticism
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. He is also known, after one of his poems, as "'' Wieszcz Miodoboru''" ("the Bard of the Honey Harvest").
Life
Tymon Zaborowski was born on 18 April 1799 in Lychkivtsi,Podolia
Podolia or Podilia ( uk, Поділля, Podillia, ; russian: Подолье, Podolye; ro, Podolia; pl, Podole; german: Podolien; be, Падолле, Padollie; lt, Podolė), is a historic region in Eastern Europe, located in the west-centra ...
. In 1810–16 he attended the Krzemieniec Lyceum. He began writing in 1814 as a member of a student ''Klub Piśmienniczy'' (Writing Club).
In 1816–18, in Warsaw
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, Zaborowski was editor of the literary section of a magazine, ''Ćwiczenia Naukowe'' (Scholarly Exercises). Then he settled at the family estate in Liczkowce.
He died in 1828 in Liczkowce. It is unknown whether his death date is 20 or 28 March.
Works
* ''Tajemnica, czyli Borys i Malwina'' (1822–24) * ''Dumy podolskie za czasów panowania tureckiego w tej ziemi'' (1830) * ''Klub piśmienniczy'', amock-heroic
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poem
Unfinished poem
Poetry (derived from the Greek '' poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meaning ...
s:
* ''Zdobycie Kijowa'' (ca. 1818)
* ''Bojan'' (1822), published in ''Ateneum'' in 1883
Never-published drama
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s:
* ''Bohdan Chmielnicki''
* ''Umwit''
Many of his works were published for the first time in ''Pisma zebrane'' (Collected Works), 3 volumes, 1936.
See also
*List of Poles
This is a partial list of notable Polish or Polish-speaking or -writing people. People of partial Polish heritage have their respective ancestries credited.
Science
Physics
* Czesław Białobrzeski
* Andrzej Buras
* Georges Charpa ...
Footnotes
References
* *Further reading
* * Polish male poets 1799 births 1828 deaths Date of death unknown 19th-century Polish poets 19th-century Polish male writers {{Poland-poet-stub