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Article: Czeslaw Milosz: Silence . . . Memory . . . Contemplation . . . Praise.(Nobel Prize winner, poet)(Critical Essay)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- September 22, 1999
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"I have no hesitation whatsoever in stating that Czeslaw Milosz is one of the greatest poets of our time, perhaps the greatest." It was with these words that the late Russian-born poet and then-recent emigre to the U.S., Joseph Brodsky, began his formal presentation of Milosz to his fellow jury members for the 1978 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. "Even if one strips his poems of the stylistic magnificence of his native Polish (which is what translation inevitably does)," Brodsky continued, "and reduces them to the naked subject matter, we still find ourselves confronting a severe and relentless mind of such intensity that the only parallel one is able to ...
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Article: Czeslaw Milosz: The Ambivalent Landscape of Return.
World Literature Today;
September 22, 1999 ;
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...In 1951, when Czeslaw Milosz, then the first secretary at the ... recognizes return as a valid topos of Milosz's poetry. Bogdana Carpenter, in her excellent essay "Czeslaw Milosz and Zbigniew Herbert: The Poet of ...
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