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Aleksander Fredro

Aleksander Fredro (20 June 1793 – 15 July 1876) was a Polish poet, playwright and author active during Polish Romanticism in the period of partitions by neighboring empires.

Jerzy Hordyński

Jerzy Hordyński (born 18 October 1919 in Jarosław, died 14 June 1998 in Rome) was a Polish poet and writer.

Włodzimierz Słobodnik

Włodzimierz Słobodnik (born September 19, 1900, in Novoukrainka, died July 10, 1991, in Warsaw) was a Polish poet, translator of French, Russian, and Soviet literature, a satirist, and the author of numerous books for young adults.


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Agi Mishol

In his New York Times book review of Look There (2006), Joel Brouwer wrote: "Mishol... takes up political subjects with a sly delicacy reminiscent of the Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska’s best work".

Agnieszka

Agnieszka Osiecka (1936–1997), Polish poet, lyricist, and journalist

Anatol Stern

Anatol Stern (24 October 1899 in Warsaw – 19 October 1968 in Warsaw) was a Polish poet, writer and art critic.

Anna Kamieńska

Anna Kamieńska (Krasnystaw, 12 April 1920 – Warsaw, 10 May 1986) was a Polish poet, writer, translator and literary critic who wrote many books for children and adolescents.

C. K. Williams

Williams is also an acclaimed translator, notably of Sophocles’ Women of Trachis and Euripides’ The Bacchae, as well as of the Polish poet Adam Zagajewski and the French poet Francis Ponge.

Chodzko

Aleksander Chodźko (1804–1891), Polish poet, Slavist, and Iranologist

Feliks

Feliks Konarski (1907–1991), Polish poet, songwriter and cabaret performer

Grzegorz Przemyk

Grzegorz Przemyk (May 17, 1964 – May 14, 1983) was a young, aspiring Polish poet from Warsaw, who was murdered by members of the Communist People's Milicja Obywatelska.

Halina Poświatowska

Halina Poświatowska (born Helena Myga, May 9, 1935, Częstochowa, Poland – October 11, 1967, Warsaw, Poland) – Polish poet and writer, one of the most important figures in modern Polish literature.

Jadwiga Łuszczewska

Jadwiga Łuszczewska (pseudonym: Deotyma (Diotima); 1 July 1834 – 23 September 1908) was a Polish poet and novelist.

Kaliber 44

The number 44 is a reference to a prophetic poem Dziady written by Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz.

Kornel Ujejski

Kornel Ujejski (September 12, 1823 in Beremiany, Podole - September 19, 1897 in Pavliv near Lviv), also known as Cornelius Ujejski, was a Polish poet, patriot and political writer.

Krzysztof Grabowski

Krzysztof „Grabaż” Grabowski (born March 13, 1965 in Piła) – Polish poet, singer, author of lyrics and music for songs by bands Pidżama Porno, Strachy Na Lachy, Ręce Do Góry and Lavina Cox.

Ladislaus Pilars de Pilar

Władysław (also Ladislaus) Baron Pilars de Pilar (Opatówek, March 3, 1874 - Chorzów, November 22, 1952) was a Polish poet and a literature professor at the Warsaw University.

Lechón

Jan Lechoń, a Polish poet, literary and theater critic, and diplomat

Leopold Lewin

Leopold Lewin (28 July 1910 in Piotrków Trybunalski – 7 December 1995 in Warsaw) was a Polish poet, journalist and translator.

Marzena

Marzena Broda, Polish poet, novelist, playwright and screenwriter

Matija Antun Relković

Relković's prison years became his Lehrjahre, his educational period: a voracious but unsystematic reader, he studied many works by leading Enlightenment writers (Voltaire, Bayle, Diderot), as well as Polish poet Jan Kochanowski's didactic epic Satir- which became the model for his most famous work.

ORP Mazur

The sailor, who although the ship was sinking, still fired until waves washed him overboard was First Lieutenant Jacek Dehnel, grandfather of the famous polish poet and writer Jacek Dehnel.

Peiper

Tadeusz Peiper (1891–1969), Polish poet, art critic and theoretician of literature

Rajnold Suchodolski

Rajnold Suchodolski (1804 - 8 September 1831, Warsaw) was a Polish poet.

Ryszard Wincenty Berwiński

Ryszard Wincenty Berwiński (28 February 1817 in Polwica, Poznań, Prussia – 19 November 1879 in Constantinople, then part of the Ottoman Empire) was a noted Polish poet, translator, folklorist, and nationalist.

Siemiechów, Lesser Poland Voivodeship

Ignacy, the third son of Jan (castellan of Wizna, near Łomza), and Ewa Trojanowska, brother of Adam (a bishop), and Michał Hieronim Krasiński (great-grandfather of world famous Polish poet, Count Zygmunt Krasiński).

Stanisław Korab-Brzozowski

Stanisław Korab-Brzozowski (1876 - 1901 in Warsaw) Polish poet and translator, brother of a poet Wincenty Korab-Brzozowski and son of a romantic bard Karol Brzozowski.

Święty Marcin

On Adam Mickiewicz square is a statue of Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz, as well as a monument to the victims of the Poznań popular protests of 1956 (erected in 1981).

Zaleski

Wacław Michał Zaleski (pseudonym Wacław from Olesko; 1799–1849), Polish poet, researcher of folklore

Złoty Potok, Silesian Voivodeship

In the Krasińscy mansion there is a museum dedicated to the Polish poet Zygmunt Krasiński.