Trembecki, ob. 1812, as a lyric poet takes equal rank, according to some Polish critics, with Krasicki.  His chief poem, Zofiowka, which has been translated into French by La Garde, is of that descriptive, contemplative kind, which was fashionable in his day.  He had more imagination than other cotemporary Polish poets.  Szymanowski, ob. 1801, a writer of pastorals, is distinguished for delicacy and sweetness.  As to the beauty of his diction his countrymen are the best judges; but as for the character and real poetical value of his productions, we doubt whether the sounder taste of our day would relish the whole species so highly as was done at a time, when the forms of society had reached the very summit of artificial perversion.  A certain longing after nature and its purity was the necessary result of such a state of things; but even nature itself they were unable to see, except in an artificial light.  All the Polish productions of this species, in the present period, savour strongly of the French school; whilst the pastorals of the sixteenth century hover in the midst between the bucolics of the ancients and the Italian and Spanish eclogues.

There was the same decided influence of the French literature on Wengierski, who died in 1787; although less in respect to taste than to morals.  Karpinski, also a writer of pastorals, approaches nearest the Greeks, and is on the whole a poet of uncommon talent.  His original writings bear much more of a national stamp than those of other poets of this period.  His translation of Racine’s Athalia is considered as a masterpiece, and his version of the Psalms has not been surpassed in any language.  Another distinguished poet is Dionysius Kniaznin, remarkable for a certain external freshness, which imparts life to all his productions.  He was educated in the college of the Jesuits at Witebsk; and it was during his whole life a matter of regret to him, that he “had lost the golden season of his youth, and wasted the labour of sleepless nights on irksome trifles.”  Notwithstanding this learned education, the author of the Letters on Poland finds between him and Burns a kind of analogy.  Kniaznin’s principal fame rests on a ludicrous heroic called the ‘Balloon.’  He spent a part of his life at Pulawy, the estate of prince Czartoryski, under the patronage of this nobleman; and is said to have become, like Tasso, the victim of a passion for one of his lady patronesses.

The following are further regarded among their countrymen as poets of the first rank, viz.  Niemcewicz, Brodzinski, bishop Woronicz, and Mickiewicz.  Julius Niemcewicz is also known by his political fortunes and influence, and is equally esteemed as an historian and for his poetical talents.  The eloquence which he exhibited in the diet of 1788-92, as the nuntius or deputy of Lithuania, laid the foundation of his fame.  When his country was lost, after having fought at the side of Kosciuszko and shared his fate