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== Enlightenment contributions ==
Katarzyna Zechenter argues in ''[[The Polish Review]]'' that Western historians have generally overlooked Krasicki's works, and that the publisher of ''Polish Fables'' (1997) overlooked the importance of the "political and social context contributing to [the fable's] origin."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Zechenter|first=Katarzyna|date=1 January 1999|title=Review of Polish Fables. Bilingual Edition|jstor=25779127|journal=The Polish Review|volume=44|issue=2|pages=239–241}}</ref> However, it is easy to see Krasicki's influence on his contemporaries and on the early 19th century, as in the case of [[Gabriela Puzynina]], a Polish princess, poet, and diarist. In 1846 she started a newspaper for the intelligentsia of Vilnius and Warsaw, and furthered the establishment of Krasicki's ''Fables'' in Poland's suppressed political life.  In her ''Diary of the Years 1815–1843'', Puzynina focuses on the fable, "[[Fables and Parables#Birds in a Cage|Birds in a Cage]]", as a commentary on the [[Partitions of Poland]].