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Learning Polish

Polish can be learnt from books, tapes, courses and CDs, available at multilingual, worldlanguage, arthur lynn, rosetta stone, language quest, pimsleur, accelerated learning and unforgettable languages.

Free lessons and material are at word2word, phrasebase, anglik, claritaslux and search language.

Other works, dictionaries, etc. can be ordered through grant and cutler, bestbookbuys, abebooks and alibris.

Polish-English-Polish online dictionaries are at multilingual books, word2word, dictionary.com, lexilogos and 1-800 translate.

Some useful language exchanges: friends abroad, xlingo, mylanguage exchange, polyglot learn language, and lingozone.

Polish Poetry

Material on Polish writers is located as follows: Jan Kochanowski, Trembecki, Zablocki, Stanislaw, Trembecki, Kajetan, Kozmian, Ludwik Osinski, Alojzy, Felinski, Naruszewicz, Kniaznin, Karpinski, Mickiewicz, Slowack, Krasinski, Novid, Wierzynski, Wat, Jan Kochanowski, Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski's Jan Andrzej Morsztyn, Ignacy Krasicki , Stanislaw Trembecki and Czeslaw Milosz

Polish poetry is well represented on the Internet, but most is without translations. Good collections of Polish poetry are listed at the chicago public library, polishwriting, granger, and twentieth century polish poetry in translation.

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (1993) has its usual excellent overview, and includes a brief bibliography, mostly Polish material. Try, however, M. Giergielewicz's Introduction to Polish Versification (1970), C. Milosz's The History of Polish Literature (1983) and B. Carpenter's The Poetic Avant-garde in Poland 1918-39 (1983), M. J. Mikos's Polish Renaissance Literature, Mikos et al's Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature, M.M. Coleman's The Polish Land, P. Cazin's Le Prince Eveque de Varmie, Ignacy Krasicki, 1735 - 1801. (1940) and S. Graciotti's Ignacy Krasicki et la culture de son temps: De la pedagogie a la poesie.

Krasicki

Material on Krasicki is located on these sites: virtual library, polish constitution, euro encyclopedia wikipedia, scaruffi, mikolaja, psych central and front list.

Mickiewicz

Information on Mickiewicz can be found on these sites: 1911 encyclopedia, Konrad Wallenrod central european review and jussieu.

Bilingual translations by various hands exist of Mickiewicz's love poetry and Grazyna and Konrad Wallenrod.

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