Kazimiera Zawistowska

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Kazimiera Zawistowska

Kazimiera Zawistowska de domo Jasieńska, pseudonym Ira, (1870–1902) was a Polish poet and translator.

Zawistowska was an author of modernist erotic and landscape poems related with mysticism, symbolism and Parnassianism. She published her works in Kraków and Warsaw magazines – Życie, Krytyka and Chimera. Zawistowska translated poems of Belgian and French symbolists, including Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Albert Samain.

Biography[]

Kazimiera Zawistowska was born in 1870 in , Podolia. After education, she moved to Switzerland and Italy. After back to Poland, she married with Stanisław Jastrzębiec-Zawistowski and lived with him in in Podolia.

She died on 28 February 1902 in Kraków. The cause of death was probably suicide.

Notable works[]

Collections of poems published posthumously
  • Poezje (1903) – with preface written by Zenon Przesmycki
  • Poezje (1923)
  • Utwory zebrane (1982)

Sources[]

  • "Zawistowska Kazimiera". Internetowa encyklopedia PWN (in Polish). Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
  • "Zawistowska Kazimiera z Jasieńskich". WIEM Encyklopedia (in Polish). Retrieved 2007-12-12.

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