- Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer
Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer (
February 12 ,1865 –January 18 ,1940 ) was aPolish poet ,novelist ,playwright ,journalist and writer. He was a member of theYoung Poland movement.Life
Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer was born in
Ludźmierz inPodhale near theTatra Mountains , then in theAustro-Hungarian Empire now inPoland , and died inWarsaw . His older half-brother was the painterWłodzimierz Tetmajer . Przerwa-Tetmajer studied classics and philosophy at theJagiellonian University in 1884-1889. He then became a journalist at "Kurier Polski ", and lived both in the Tatras and inKraków (Cracow). AfterWorld War I he moved toWarsaw to serve as president of the Society of Writers and Journalists. In 1934 he was made honorary member of the Polish Academy of Literature.Przerwa-Tetmajer suffered from a mental illness in the latter years of his life, which prevented him from writing. He was living in a hospice in 1940 when the
Nazis evicted all the occupants. He was left homeless and died shortly afterwards in aWarsaw hospital.Work
Przerwa Tetmajer wrote seven collections of poetry before
World War I . He is particularly well known for his works about the Tatras. At least one of his poems, "Kriváň, High Kriváň!" ("Krywaniu, Krywaniu wysoki!") [ cite journal|title=Jak Jasiek z Ustupu, Hanusia od Królów i Marta Uherczykówna z Liptowa śpiewali w jedno słoneczne rano ku sobie|journal=Na skalnym Podhalu|date=1903|first=Kazimierz|last=Przerwa-Tetmajer|coauthors=|volume=|issue=|pages=|id= |url=|format=|accessdate= ] is now often taken for an authentic folk song. [cite book | last = Długołęcka | first = Lidia | authorlink = | coauthors = Maciej Pinkwart | title = Muzyka i Tatry | publisher = | date = 1992 | location = | pages = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = ] According to Barry Keane from the "Warsaw Voice":Przerwa Tetmajer was primarily a lyrical poet who articulated the birth pangs of modernism at the turn of the century, but he will be best remembered for his erotic verse and for poems evoking his beloved Tatra mountains. He broke with age-old subtleties and niceties common to amorous poetry and wrote on love in frank and provocative terms. The poet simultaneously attracted huge praise from legions of readers and loud accusations of depravity from other quarters... at the close of the 19th century.Fact|date=March 2008
References
ee also
* [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9071840/Kazimierz-Tetmajer About K. Przerwa-Tetmajer in Encyclopedia Britannica]
* [http://www.mission.net/poland/warsaw/literature/poems/cradle.htm Sample poem: "A Cradle Wind"] , translated byWalter Whipple
*Polish literature
*Young Poland
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