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 writte ...

. He was influenced at the beginning of his writing career by

classicism Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for a classical period, classical antiquity in the Western tradition, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate. In its purest form, classicism is an aestheti ...

, then by

Romanticism Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate ...

. He is also known, after one of his poems, as "''

Wieszcz The Three Bards (, ) are the national poets of Polish Romantic literature. They lived and worked in exile during the partitions of Poland which ended the existence of the Polish sovereign state. Their tragic poetical plays and epic poetry writ ...

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-central ...

. In 1810–16 he attended the

Krzemieniec Lyceum Krzemieniec Lyceum ( pl, Liceum Krzemienieckie; russian: Кременецкий лицей; uk, Крем'янецький ліцей); sometimes referred to as "the Volhynian Athens" and " Czacki's School") was a renowned Polish secondary school ...

. He began writing in 1814 as a member of a student ''Klub Piśmienniczy'' (Writing Club). In 1816–18, in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

, 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'', a

mock-heroic Mock-heroic, mock-epic or heroi-comic works are typically satires or parodies that mock common Classical stereotypes of heroes and heroic literature. Typically, mock-heroic works either put a fool in the role of the hero or exaggerate the heroic ...

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 meanings in ...

s: * ''Zdobycie Kijowa'' (ca. 1818) * ''Bojan'' (1822), published in ''Ateneum'' in 1883 Never-published

drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been ...

s: * ''Bohdan Chmielnicki'' * ''Umwit'' Many of his works were published for the first time in ''Pisma zebrane'' (Collected Works), 3 volumes, 1936.

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