Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński: Biography, Facts and Career
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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". The poet's status in the history of Polish literature is controversial.
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- Full name: Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński
- Born: 1550-01-01
- Nationality: Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Known as: Author
- Wikidata ID: Q18630
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Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński was born on 1550-01-01.
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