Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński
Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński (c. 1550 – c. 1581) was an influential Polish poet of the late Renaissance who wrote in both Polish and Latin. He was a pioneer of the Baroque and the greatest representative of the metaphysical movement of the era in Poland. His love poems are often classed as mannerist. Jan Błoński has called Sęp Szarzyński a "mystical poet full of abstraction", and Wiktor Weintraub has called him "the most outstanding poet of the times of Jan Kochanowski".Wiktor Weintraub, ''Od Reja do Boya'' (From ikołajRej to Żeleński.html" ;"title="adeuszBoy[-Żeleński">adeuszBoy[-Żeleński, Warsaw, 1977, pp. 45-47. The poet's status in the history of Polish literature is controversial. Life Little is known about Sęp Szarzyński's personal life. He was born in Zimna Woda near Lwów, the eldest of three sons, and educated at the universities of Wittenberg and Leipzig. His stay in Germany brought him close to Protestantism but he later became an ardent Roman ...
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