The Word: Two Hundred Years of Polish Poetry, translated by Marcel Weyland; Brandl & Schlesinger, 2010, 480 pages, $39.95. A man may be an admirable poet without being an exact chronologer.  —John Dryden Almost ten long years have passed since Marcel Weyland published what must have appeared at the time as his magnum opus—the English translation of Adam Mickiewicz’s Pan Tadeusz. It was a major triumph of dedication, hard work, patience and poetic inspiration. The silence that followed was, however, a very productive period. It came to fruition with the publication last year of an even more ambitious translation project:…