Kazimiera Zawistowska

Kazimiera Zawistowska "de domo" Jasieńska, pseudonym Ira, (1870–1902) was a Polish acclaimed 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 Rasztowce, Podolia. After education, she moved to Switzerland and Italy. After back to Poland, she married with Stanisław Jastrzębiec-Zawistowski and lived with him in Supranówka in Podolia.

She died on February 28, 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)

References

* cite web
title=Zawistowska Kazimiera
work=Internetowa encyklopedia PWN
url=http://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo.php?id=4000705
accessdate=2007-12-12
language=Polish
publisher=Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN
* cite web
title=Zawistowska Kazimiera z Jasieńskich
work=WIEM Encyklopedia
url=http://portalwiedzy.onet.pl/5491,,,,zawistowska_kazimiera_z_jasienskich,haslo.html
language=Polish
accessdate=2007-12-12

External links

* cite web
url=http://www.ned.univie.ac.at/lic/autor.asp?paras=/lg;18/lt;18/aut_id;26751/link;3/id;16035/
language=Polish
title=Kazimiera Zawistowska z Jasieńskich
work=LIC – Literatura w kontekście