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Ecstatic pessimist : Czeslaw Milosz, poet of catastrophe and hope
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"Ecstatic Pessimist address several topics and strands in the literary production and life of Czesław Miłosz, the Nobel Prize Polish-language poet and American citizen. It is also a personal histor...
"Ecstatic Pessimist address several topics and strands in the literary production and life of Czesław Miłosz, the Nobel Prize Polish-language poet and American citizen. It is also a personal history of the relations between Miłosz and the author of the book, himself a poet who worked on translations with the Polish poet in 1960s"--
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- Creator
- Peter Dale Scott
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2023]
- ©2023
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- xi, 361 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781538172438, 1538172437, 9781538172445, 1538172445, 9781538172452, 9781538172452
- OCLC
- on1343196751
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Part I: Milosz, poetry, and politics -- My years with Milosz (1961-1967) -- Milosz, solidarity, and "unpolitical politics": or, poetry and the liberation of a people -- Looking "from above": Milosz, catastrophe, and "doubleness" -- Part II: Milosz's poetry of the war -- Milosz's wartime poem-sequence, Ocalenie: Overview: the structure of the book -- Ocalenie part II: "The World" as hub of the book -- Ocalenie part III: "Voices of Poor People" -- Ocalenie part IV: "Flight" and the flight from Warsaw -- Ocalenie part V: the three final poems -- Part III: Milosz after the war (1946-1960) -- Milosz, Auden, and "A Treatise on Morals" -- Milosz the émigré: "The Eternal Moment" -- The poetic hegelianism of A Treatise on Poetry -- "A Treatise on Poetry," part IV: "Natura -- Part IV: Milosz as transnational author -- Milosz in Berkeley, 1961: "Throughout Our Lands" -- Milosz as a poet in later years (1964-2004) -- Milosz's mature prose: the marriage of Blake and Eliot -- Saning insanity: Milosz as healer of a post-secular era -- Three poems to Czeslaw Milosz: introduced by a personal memoir -- Three poems to Czeslaw Milosz