Milosz: a Biography

by Franaszek, Andrzej

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Title Statements

Full title :Milosz : a Biography.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Harvard University Press
Place of Publication:Cumberland
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017.

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"One of the greatest poets of our time, if not the greatest."

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Description:1 online resource (575 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780674977419, 0674977416
oclc:ocn982452409
LC Classification:PG7158
Dewey Decimal:891.8/58709

Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright; Contents ; Abbreviations ; Maps ; Introduction by Michael Parker ; 1. The Garden of Eden, 1911-1920; 'Darkness ... split by distant flashes, illuminations' ; The Earthly Paradise ; Good and Bad Blood ; A Grenade under the Bed; 2. The Young Man and the Mysteries, 1921-1929; The Apartment with Fig-Plants ; Tomcat ; Doctor Catchfly ; Manichean Poisons ; Early Literary Tastes (and Russian Roulette) ; Inside the Lodge.

The Rushing Heraclitean River 3. Black Ariel, 1930-1934; 'I devote too little time to study' ; Egg-Man ; The Cezary Baryka Complex ; Friday Seminars, Literary Wednesdays ; Leviathan's Wardens ; A Bridge Suspended in Mid-Air ; The Devil's See-Saw ; 'If early love had lasted ... ' ; 'To the left, to the right' ; 4. The Country of the First Emigration, 1935-1939; 'A certain student in the city of Paris' ; 'The whole cosmos revolves within us' ; 'On black meadows' ; Publican.

'A handful of unearthly truths' 'Siena descends into gleams' ; 'In my homeland, to which I will not return'; Warsaw Friendships ; Janka ; Coming Down to Earth ; A Blood-Red Star; 5. Voices of Poor People, 1939-1945; Medals in the Suitcase ; Reflections on the Inferno ; …

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