The article presents historical, literary, religious and political context in which interest in the poetry of the Baroque Neo-Latin poet Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595-1640) appeared in the first half of the 18th century among English dissenters and non-conformists. The article concentrates on the best known and most prolific of the six dissenting translators of Sarbiewski Isaac Watts (1674-1748) and his disciple and biographer Thomas Gibbons (1720-1785). The article includes a brief presentation of the nineteen translated lyrics of Sarbiewski and their translators. (In Polish).