Kasper Twardowski

Who is Kasper Twardowski?

Kasper Twardowski was a Polish poet of the early Polish Baroque period, representing the so-called metaphysical or metaphysical-and-devotional line of poets. Little is known of his personal life. Twardowski was most likely born in Sambor into the well-off family of the local tailor, and spent his youth in Kraków, Poland, where he is assumed to have studied at the Jagiellonian University. In 1629 Twardowski moved probably to Lwów, where he died. Twardowski is best known for his erotica called "the Cupid's Lessons", banned by the bishop of Kraków, and later rejected by the poet himself as immoral; blamed for his own poor health as the apparent wrath of God.