Józef Bohdan Zaleski

Józef Bohdan Zaleski (14 February 1802 in Bohatyrka, Kiev guberniya – 31 March 1886 in Villepreux, near Paris) was a Polish Romantic poet. A friend of Adam Mickiewicz, Zaleski founded the "Ukrainian poetic school."

Life
Zaleski was a member of the secret patriotic organisation Związek Wolnych Polaków (1821); a participant of the November Uprising (1830–1831); a deputy of the Sejm (during the November Uprising 1830–1831); the co-founder (with Mickiewicz) of the religious brotherhood Towarzystwo Braci Zjednoczonych; and co-editor of a magazine, Nowa Polska.

Works
Zaleski was associated with Romanticism and sentimentalism. He was the author of popular historical dumas (in which he refers to Ukrainian folklore); love and reflective lyrics inspired by folk poetry; religious poetry; as well as fantasy poems, sung poems, aphoristic poems, memoirs, translations (Serbian folk songs). Three of his songs were set to music by Frédéric Chopin (see Polish songs by Frédéric Chopin).


 * Dumas
 * Dumka hetmana Kosińskiego (Dumka of Hetman Kosiński, 1823)
 * Dumka Mazepy (Mazepa's Dumka)
 * Czajki


 * Poems and lyrics
 * Duch od stepu (The Spirit from the Steppe, 1841 poem)
 * Jamby (Iambs), aphoristic poem
 * Przenajświętsza Rodzina (The Most Holy Family, 1839; published in Poezje [Poems], vol. 2, 1842), religious poem
 * Pyłki (Dust), aphoristic poem
 * Rojenia wiośniane — sung poem
 * Rusałki (1829) — fantasy poem
 * Śliczny chłopiec — sung poem
 * Śpiew poety (1823) — lyric
 * Tędy, tędy leciał ptaszek — sung poem
 * Duch od stepu (The Spirit from the Steppe, 1841 poem)


 * Collections
 * Pisma zbiorowe (Collected Writings, vols. 1–4, 1877)
 * Dzieła pośmiertne (Posthumous Works, vols. 1–2, 1891)
 * Korespondencja (Correspondence, vols. 1–5, 1900–04)