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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Polish
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The Nobel Prize-winning poet Czeslaw Milosz began his remarkable A Treatise on Poetry in the winter of 1955 and finished it in the spring of 1956. It was published originally in parts in the Polish émigré journal Kultura. Now it is available in English for the first time in this expert translation by the award-winning American poet Robert Hass.
A Treatise on Poetry is a great poem about some of the most terrible events in the twentieth century. Divided into four sections, the poem begins at the end of the nineteenth century as a comedy of manners and moves with a devastating momentum through World War I to the horror of World War II. Then it takes on directly and plainly the philosophical abyss into which the European cultures plunged.
"Author's Notes" on the poem appear at the end of the volume. A stunning literary composition, these notes stand alone as brilliant miniature portraits that magically re-create the lost world of prewar Europe.A Treatise on Poetry evokes the European twentieth century, its comedy and terror and grief, with the force and expressiveness of a great novel. A tone poem to a lost time, a harrowing requiem for the century's dead, and a sober meditation on history, consciousness, and art: here is a masterwork that confronts the meaning of the twentieth century with a directness and vividness that are without parallel.
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Original Language: Polish
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- Czeslaw Milosz: Conversations (Literary Conversations Series) by Cynthia L. Haven on 6 pages
- Poetry After Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew by Susan Gubar on page 259, and Back Matter
- 20th Century Pleasures by Robert Hass in Front Matter, and page 191
- Living in Translation: Polish Writers in America (Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics 40) (Studies in Slavic Literature & Poetics) by Halina Stephan on page 73, and page 74
- Green Thoughts, Green Shades: Essays by Contemporary Poets on the Early Modern Lyric by Jonathan F. S. Post in Back Matter
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