What is Stanisław Barańczak?
[[File:Anna and Stanislaw Baranczak by Kubik 05061995.jpg|thumb|Stanisław Barańczak with his wife Anna, 1995]] '''Stanisław Barańczak''' (November 13, 1946, [[Poznań]], [[Poland]] – December 26, 2014, [[Boston]], [[USA]]) was a [[Poles|Polish]] [[poet]], literary [[critic]], [[scholar]], [[editor in chief|editor]], [[translator]] and [[lecturer]].<ref name=merrigan>{{cite web |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/10/2/stanislaw-baranczak/ |title=Even When No One is Looking |date=October 2, 2012 |author=Tara Merrigan |work=[[The Harvard Crimson]] |accessdate=October 3, 2012}}</ref> He was most famous and valued for Polish translations of [[William Shakespeare]] dramas as well as numerous translations of English poetry by [[E. E. Cummings|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== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~slavic/people/faculty_pages/Stanislaw%20Baranczak.htm Barańczak's profile at the Harvard University Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures website]. [http://home.roadrunner.com/~polishlit/contemporary-b.html#bar2 Polish Literature in English Translation: Stanisław Barańczak] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706132016/http://home.roadrunner.com/~polishlit/contemporary-b.html#bar2 |date=2011-07-06 }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Baranczak, Stanislaw}} [[Category:1946 births]] [[Category:2014 deaths]] [[Category:Literary critics]] [[Category:Polish academics]] [[Category:Writers from Poznań]] [[Category:Polish poets]] [[Category:Polish translators]] {{bio-stub}}