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Name
  
Kazimiera Zawistowska

Role
  
Poet

Died
  
1902, Krakow, Poland


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Kazimiera Zawistowska de domo Jasieńska, pseudonym Ira, (1870–1902) was a Polish poet and translator.

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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

    Kazimiera Zawistowska Wikipedia