• Source: Walter Whipple

Walter Whipple (born 1943) is a Teaching Professor Emeritus of Polish in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages of Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah. From 1990 to 1993, Whipple served as the president of the Poland Warsaw Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
Whipple is the author of numerous English translations of Polish poems, including works of Wisława Szymborska, Juliusz Słowacki, Cyprian Kamil Norwid, Bolesław Prus, Jan Brzechwa, Julian Tuwim, and Kazimierz Tetmajer.
As a young man, Whipple served as a Mormon missionary in Switzerland. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from BYU and his DMA from the University of Southern California. From 1974 to 1990, he was a professor of music at Rockford College.
Whipple is a professional organist and amateur cellist. He has served as a member of the General Church Music Committee of the LDS Church.




See also


Polish literature
Walter Whipple served as organist at the Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies from May 2009 through August 2010.




Notes






References


Church News February 3, 1990;June 24, 1995




External links


Official website of Brigham Young University
Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages of BYU
Polish Literature in English Translation




= Translations available on-line

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Juliusz Słowacki (1809–1849)
The Funeral of Captain Meyzner
My Testament
On Transporting Napolean’s Ashes
Reassurance
Separation
Sowinski in the Trenches of Wola
Cyprian Kamil Norwid (1821–1883)
The Larva
Mother Tongue (Język ojczysty)
My Song
To Citizen John Brown (Do obywatela Johna Brown)
What Did You Do to Athens, Socrates? (Coś ty Atenom zrobił Sokratesie...)
Bolesław Prus (1847–1912)
Le Tombeau de Krasicki
The Silver Locust
Some of the Picture
Kazimierz Tetmajer (1865–1940)
A Cradle Wind
Julian Tuwim (1894–1953)
The Locomotive (Lokomotywa)
Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński (1905–1953)
A Song of the Soldiers of Westerplatte (Pieśń o żołnierzach z Westerplatte)
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012)
A Cat in an Empty Apartment (Kot w pustym mieszkaniu)
Children of an Epoch
Circus Animals
Consciousness
The End and the Beginning
From Korea (Z Korei)
Hatred (Nienawiść)
It’s Most Fortunate (Wielkie to szczęście)
The Laboratory
Love at First Sight (Miłość od pierwszego wejrzenia)
May 16, 1973
Nothing’s a Gift
The Seance
The Silent Movies
The Sky
Some People Like Poetry (Niektórzy lubią poezję)

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