PAWLIKOWSKA-JASNORZEWSKA, MARIA

born Nov. 20, 1893, Krakau, Austria-Hungary [now Krakw, Pol.] died July 9, 1945, Manchester, Eng. Polish poet noted for her urbane, sensitive lyric verse. As a daughter of the well-known painter Wojciech Kossak, Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska grew up in an artistic and intellectual milieu. Her first collection of poems, Niebieskie migdaly (1922; Idle Dreams), was warmly acclaimed by the poets of the Skamander group. Up to 1939 she published a dozen more small volumes of her lyric poetryincluding Pocalunki (1926; Kisses) and Surowy Jedwab (1932; Raw Silk)in which she dealt with such subject matter as the loves, the disenchantments, and the carefree life of a sophisticated modern woman. During World War II she emigrated to France and later to England, where, lamenting her exile, she expressed her feelings in Rza i lasy plonace (1940; A Rose and Burning Forests) and in Golab ofiarny (1941; The Sacrificial Dove).