Abstract
The article is devoted to a Polish translation of a famous Ch. Dickens’s Christmas story The Cricket on the Hearth (1845). The article offers a comparative analysis of the source text and its two Polish translations. A special attention was given to negative emotions and feelings, and to the differences in their renditions. The first translation was published in 1954 by M. Feldmanowa-Kreczowska and the second – in 1988 by K. Tarnowska. Translations were published at different times, which had a considerable impact on their poetics and quality. Theoretical aspects of emotional issues are shortly discussed.