Stanisław Barańczak

Stanisław Barańczak (November 13, 1946, Poznań, Poland – December 26, 2014, Boston, USA) was a Polish poet, literary critic, scholar, editor, translator and lecturer. 

He was most famous and valued for Polish translations of William Shakespeare dramas as well as numerous translations of English poetry by ee cummings, Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, Wystan Hugh Auden, Seamus Heaney, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Stearns Eliot, John Keats, Robert Frost, Edward Lear and others.

Barańczak died in Boston, Massachusetts, aged 58.

References

Other websites
Barańczak's profile at the Harvard University Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures website.
 Polish Literature in English Translation: Stanisław Barańczak 

Category:1946 births
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Category:Literary critics
Category:Polish academics
Category:Writers from Poznań
Category:Polish poets
Category:Polish translators