%0 Journal Article %T Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski and English Dissenting Poets of the Early 18th Century: A Study in Reception of Neo-Latin Poetry in Great Britain %A Fordoński, Krzysztof %J Terminus %V 2011 %R 10.4467/20843844TE.11.004.0034 %N Vol XIII Issue 24 (2011) %P 71-85 %@ 2082-0984 %D 2012 %U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/terminus/article/maciej-kazimierz-sarbiewski-and-english-dissenting-poets-of-the-early-18th-century-a-study-in-reception-of-neo-latin-poetry-in-great-britain %X The article presents historical, literary, religious and political context in which interest in the poetry of the Baroque Neo-Latin poet Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595–1640) appeared in the first half of the 18th century among English dissenters and non-conformists. The article concentrates on the best known and most prolific of the six dissenting translators of Sarbiewski Isaac Watts (1674–1748) and his pupil and biographer Thomas Gibbons (1720–1785). The article includes a brief presentation of the translated poems of Sarbiewski and their translators.