Laments (Kochanowski)

Laments
Title page of Laments, 1583 printing
AuthorJan Kochanowski
Original titleTreny
LanguagePolish
Genrepoetry
PublisherDrukarnia Łazarzowa
Publication date
1580
Publication placePoland

The Laments (also Lamentations or Threnodies; Polish: Treny, originally spelled Threny) is a series of nineteen threnodies (elegies) written in Polish by Jan Kochanowski and published in 1580. They are a high point of Polish Renaissance literature, and one of Kochanowski's signal achievements.