num_pages: 80
description: Jan Kochanowski (1530-1584) is acknowledged to be Poland's greatest poet, and this work represents the height of his achievement. The poems it contains, incorporating outspokenness and breach of decorum, are an impassioned but controlled expression of grief over the death of his daughter Orszula.
language: English
title: Laments
titlecomplete: Laments
genres: 16th Century, Mythology, Death, Polish Literature, School, Poland, Poetry, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 1504
publisher: Jan Kochanowski