 He translated Shakespeare's "As You Like It" and T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" into Polish.Along with his friend the novelist Jerzy Andrzejewski, he also arranged for the publication of his third volume of poetry, "Poems", under a pseudonym in September 1940.The pseudonym was "Jan Syruć" and the title page said the volume had been published by a fictional press in Lwów in 1939; in fact, it may have been the first clandestine book published in occupied Warsaw.