Editing Polish literature (section)

==Enlightenment==
The period of [[Enlightenment in Poland|Polish Enlightenment]] began in the 1730s–40s and peaked in the second half of the 18th century during the reign of [[Polish kings|Poland's last king]], [[Stanisław August Poniatowski]].<ref name="bookinstitute.pl-2">Jacek Adamczyk, book review: [http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,79,2480.php  ''Regina Libertas: Liberty in Polish Eighteenth-Century Political Thought'', by Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222224354/http://www.bookinstitute.pl/en,ik,site,40,79,2480.php |date=22 February 2014 }} ''Instytut Książki'', Poland. Retrieved 17 September 2011.</ref> It went into sharp decline with the [[Third Partition of Poland|Third and final Partition]] of Poland (1795), followed by political, cultural and economic destruction of the country, and leading to the [[Great Emigration]] of Polish elites. The Enlightenment ended around 1822, and was replaced by [[Romanticism in Poland|Polish Romanticism]] at home and abroad.<ref name="Miłosz-1" />

One of the leading Polish Enlightenment poets was [[Ignacy Krasicki]] (1735–1801), known locally as "the Prince of Poets" and [[Fables and Parables|Poland's La Fontaine]], author of the first Polish novel called ''[[The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom]]'' (Mikołaja Doświadczyńskiego przypadki); he was also a playwright, journalist, [[encyclopedist]] and [[Translation#History of theory|translator]] from French and [[Greek language|Greek]]. Another prominent writer of the period was [[Jan Potocki]] (1761–1815), a Polish nobleman, [[Egyptology|Egyptologist]], [[linguistics|linguist]], and adventurer, whose travel memoirs made him legendary in his homeland. Outside Poland he is known chiefly for his novel, ''[[The Manuscript Found in Saragossa]],'' which has drawn comparisons to such celebrated works as the ''Decameron'' and ''the Arabian Nights''.
Notable Polish writers and poets of the Enlightenment period include:
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* [[Stanisław Leszczyński]] (1677–1766), "[[Głos wolny...]]"
* [[Elżbieta Drużbacka]] (1695?–1765)
* [[Stanisław Konarski]] (1700–1773), "O skutecznym rad sposobie"
* [[Barbara Sanguszko]] (1718–1791)
* [[Franciszek Bohomolec]] (1720–1784), magazine ''Monitor''
* [[Stanisław August Poniatowski]] (1732–1798)
* [[Adam Naruszewicz]] (1733–1796)
* [[Ignacy Krasicki]] (1735–1801), ''[[Fables and Parables]]''
* [[Onufry Kopczyński]] (1736–1817)
* [[Stanisław Trembecki]] (1739–1812)
* [[Franciszek Salezy Jezierski]] (1740–1791)
* [[Franciszek Karpiński]] (1741–1825)
* [[Jan Piotr Norblin]] (1745–1830)
* [[Izabela Czartoryska]] (1746–1835), [[Czartoryski Museum]]
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* [[Franciszek Kniaźnin]] (1750–1807)
* [[Hugo Kołłątaj]] (1750–1812), ''[[Kołłątaj's Forge|Kuźnica Kołłątajowska]]''
* [[Franciszek Zabłocki]] (1754–1821), ''[[Towarzystwo do Ksiąg Elementarnych]]''
* [[Stanisław Staszic]] (1755–1826), ''[[Constitution of May 3, 1791|Constitution of 1791]]''
* [[Jan Śniadecki]] (1756–1830)
* [[Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz]] (1758–1841), ''[[Constitution of May 3, 1791|Constitution of 1791]]''
* [[Jakub Jasiński]] (1759–1794)
* [[Tadeusz Czacki]] (1765–1813), ''[[Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning|Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk]]''
* [[Jędrzej Śniadecki]] (1768–1838), first Polish chemistry text book
* [[Samuel Linde]] (1771–1847), ''[[Towarzystwo do Ksiąg Elementarnych]]''
* [[Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński]], ''[[Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich]]''
* [[Andrzej Stanisław Załuski]] and [[Józef Załuski]], ''[[Biblioteka Załuskich]]''
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