Jan Kochanowski (1530-84) was the greatest poet of Poland during its existence as an independent kingdom. His _Laments_ are his masterpiece, the choicest work of Polish lyric poetry before the time of Mickiewicz. Kochanowski was a learned poet of the Renaissance, drawing his inspiration from the literatures of Greece and Rome. He was also a man of sincere piety, famous for his translation of the Psalms into his native language. In his _Laments_, written in memory of his little daughter Ursula, who died in 1579 at the age of thirty months, he expresses the deepest personal emotion through the medium of a literary style that had been developed by long years of study. The _Laments_, to be sure…
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