Zenon Przesmycki
Polish writer
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contribution to Polish literature
- In Polish literature: The Young Poland movement
…Antoni Lange, the poet, and Zenon Przesmycki (pseudonym Miriam), editor of the Symbolist review Chimera. Both made translations from a number of other languages and expressed aesthetic theories in critical essays. Przesmycki’s most influential contribution to the development of a modern literature, however, was his discovery of Cyprian Norwid.
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role in Young Poland movement
- In Young Poland movement
…by the editor and critic Zenon Przesmycki (“Miriam”), an early Polish modernist.
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translation of Norwid’s works
- In Cyprian Norwid
…was restored to posterity by Zenon Przesmycki (pseudonym Miriam)—an early Polish modernist and the country’s first translator of Arthur Rimbaud—who began publishing Norwid’s works in 1901.
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