Bolesław Leśmian

is today considered one of the greatest Polish poets of the 20th century, although he was a marginal figure during his lifetime. Leśmian (1877–1937) was the author of four volumes of poems, alongside three books of fairy tales for children. His innovative idiosyncratic style, chalk full of neologisms, earned him the name of the great innovator of Polish poetry, as well as that of a largely untranslatable poet.