Elżbieta Drużbacka (née Kowalska, 1695 or 1698 – March 14, 1765 in
Tarnów
Tarnów () is a city in southeastern Poland with 105,922 inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of 269,000 inhabitants. The city is situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship since 1999. From 1975 to 1998, it was the capital of the Tarnów ...
) 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 ...
of the late
Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
period.
Much of her work deals with the beauty of nature; her best known work is ''Description of the Four Seasons'' (''Opisanie czterech części roku'').
After her death, bishop
Józef Andrzej Załuski collected her opus in the volume ''Zbiór rytmów polskich''.
External links
Four seasons fragment (Polish)
References
1690s births
1765 deaths
18th-century Polish–Lithuanian poets
18th-century Polish–Lithuanian women writers
Year of birth uncertain
Polish women poets
Baroque writers
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