Volume 43, Number 6 · April 4, 1996
Another Version of 'Laments'
By Michael J Mikos, Reply by Czeslaw Milosz
In response to Bringing a Great Poet Back to Life
(February 15, 1996)
To the Editors:
I was dismayed reading Czeslaw Milosz's review of Jan Kochanowski's Laments [NYR, February 15]. In listing earlier translations of this work, Milosz does not mention my translation of Laments, the first complete rendition since 1928, which appeared in my book Polish Renaissance Literature: An Anthology (Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers, Inc., 1995) and was subsequently published in a bilingual edition as: Jan Kochanowski, Laments, translated by Michael J. Mikos (Warsaw: Constants, 1995).
Michael J. Mikos
Department of Slavic Languages
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee