Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński
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Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński (c. 1550 – c. 1581) was an influential[1] Polish poet of the late Renaissance who wrote in both Polish and Latin. He was a pioneer of the Baroque and the greatest representative of the metaphysical[2] movement of the era in Poland. His love poems are often classed as mannerist. Jan Błoński has called Sęp Szarzyński a "mystical poet full of abstraction",[3] and Wiktor Weintraub has called him "the most outstanding poet of the times of Jan Kochanowski".[4] The poet's status in the history of Polish literature is controversial.[4][5]