Identity area
Reference code
BXB/1/1/SOP
Title
Piotr Sommer
Date(s)
- 1991 (Creation)
Level of description
Subseries
Extent and medium
2 boxes
Context area
Name of creator
(1948-)
Biographical history
Piotr Sommer is known in Poland both as an important poet and as a leading translator of English poetry into Polish. Born in 1948, he has published five collections of his own poems in Poland, as well as an antholgy of contemporary British poetry, and a book of interviews with British and Irish poets. He has translated Robert Lowell into Polish and produced Polish editions of Frank O'Hara and Charles Reznikoff.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Consists of letters and proofs relating to the translated work of Piotr Sommer.