TETMAJER (PRZERWA), KAZIMIERZ

born Feb. 11, 1865, Ludzmierz, Galicia [now in Poland] died Jan. 18, 1940, Warsaw poet and short-story writer who was a member of the Young Poland movement. Much of his lyric poetry received publication in the Krakw periodical Zycie (Life). His nostalgic and pessimistic Poezje (Poetry), published in eight series between 1891 and 1924, shows the influence of the Romantic poet and playwright Juliusz Slowacki and of French and Belgian verse. His five volumes of sketches and tales, Na skalnym Podhalu (190310; Tales of the Tatras), are considered his best work. Based in part on ancient legends of the area of the Tatras mountains, these colourful stories describe the mountaineers, their violent lives, and their intense love of freedom.