L’art poétique by Boileau, inspired by Horace, Diderot and Pope; referring to the dissertation by Golański entitled O wymowie i poezji (On Rhetoric and Poetry) Dmochowski formulated here the canon of Polish literary classicism. The work was later the subject of a polemic presented by Mickiewicz in the dissertation O krytykach i recenzentach warszawskich (On Warsaw Critics and Reviewers). References Free Polish Literature Encyclopedia 1762 births 1818 deaths 18th-century Polish–Lithuanian novelists 19th-century Polish novelists Polish male novelists Polish male poets Polish literary critics Polish translators Polish satirists Kościuszko insurgents Polish political writers Piarists