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The flowering of lyrics in Europe is associated with the Renaissance. And what Petrarch, for example, did for this flowering in Italian literature or Ronsard in French literature, Kohanovsky did in his own way in Polish literature. All three are known today as great masters of lyric poetry.

Written in a lively vernacular, Polish lyrics originated in the sixteenth century, and its most prominent creator was Jan Kokhanovski, a singer of the Renaissance, which came to Northern Europe at the end of the fifteenth century. If we take into account the evolutionary nature of the transformations that took place in the history and culture of European nations at that time, we should recognise the chronological boundaries of the Renaissance and the Middle Ages as rather arbitrary."

Jan Kochanowski's work was a source of inspiration for all subsequent generations of Polish writers. Samuel Twardowski, Franciszek Knyazińin, Cyprian Norwid, Bolesław Lesmian, Julian Tuwim, Władysław Broniewski, Konstanty Halczynski, Antoni Slonimski, and many other artists of the word have turned to his images and themes.