Milota Zdirad Polák

Milota Zdirad Polák (1788–1856) was a Czech poet and soldier. Bowring calls him M. Z. Polak and says he served in the army, was adjutant to Baron Koller, and twice went with the Austrian troops to Italy.

His best-known work is the didactic poem Vznešenost přírody (Sublimities of Nature). Bowring translates three songs of parting and longing, two of them a dialogue between the lovers Kráska and Květoslav.