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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1980
nobel.se/literature/laureates/1980/ |
38 links |
The Nobel Foundation's Milosz website: the Laureate's biography
(209 words), his Nobel lecture (4,350 words), a selection of four of his
poems (in the original Polish and in English translation), the 1980 press
release (1,290 words) announcing the award, and photographs. |
Another Hero out of Poland: Poet Czeslaw Milosz
Nonperson' No Longer
boston.com/globe/.../nobel/1982/... |
1,850 words |
A 1982 Boston Globe article inspired by the award of the 1980
Nobel prize to the poet and his visit to Warsaw to a hero's welcome in June
of 1981. |
Biography
wibiblio.org/ipa/milosz/bio.html |
2,475 words |
An account of the poet's life and and an introduction to his
writings |
Czesław Miłosz (born 1911)
arts.gla.ac.uk/Slavonic/Milosz.htm |
1,350 words |
A literary and political biography |
Witold Gombrowicz and Czesław Miłosz : the two Polarities of Twentieth-Century Polish Literature?
utoronto.ca/.../gombrowicz.html |
8,390 words |
A lecture by Bogdan Czaykowski which draws a comparison between Gombrowicz and Milosz as writers and thinkers; also an analysis how the differences between them reflect a fundamental dichotomy in twentieth-century Polish literature, perhaps of twentieth-century Polish culture in general.
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Czeslaw Milosz
culture.pl/...milosz_czeslaw |
890 words |
A biography and Bibliography. |
Czeslaw Milosz
onlinepoetryclassroom.org/poets/... |
460 words |
Short biography |
Czeslaw Milosz: Nobel Laureate, Poet & Essayist
almaz.com/nobel/literature/... |
390 words |
Short biography and bibliography with links to sites selling
his books. |
Books and Writers: Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004)
kirjasto.sci.fi/milosz.htm |
1,140 words |
A literary biography and a list of selected works |
Nobel Poet Reads at Library
loc.gov/.../milosz.html |
814 words |
An account of a 1997 reading by Milosz at Brigham Young University. |
The Poor Poles Look at the Ghetto
ucis.pitt.edu/eehistory/... |
6,500 words |
An essay, first published in the Krakow-based weekly, Tygodnik
Powszechny, which discusses Milosz's poems Campo dei Fiori and A Poor Christian
Looks at the Ghetto as these address the Polish-Jewish past. |
Literary History From the Horse's Mouth
info-poland...milosz/wv... |
1,055 words |
A 1998 Warsaw Voice article commenting on Milosz's 1983 updated edition of his The History of Polish Literature. |
A Tangled Fate and Culture
info-poland...milosz/wv2... |
1,150 and 1,400 words |
Two September 2004 Warsaw Voice articles published in the aftermath of the poet's death. |
Poland's Poet Laureate
info-poland...milosz/wv3... |
670 words |
A July 2001 Warsaw Voice article occasioned by the Krakow celebration of the poet's 90th birthday |
Nike Picks Milosz off the Roadside
info-poland...milosz/wv5... |
675 words |
An October 1988 Warsaw Voice article occasioned by the award of Poland's highest literary prize. the Nike, to Milosz's book Piesek przydrożny (The Dog by the Roadside). The book comprises poems, metaphysical meditation, memoirs, theological mini-treatises and the poet's thoughts on his work and long life. |
The Worlds Within: In a Remarkable Memoir, Czeslaw
Milosz Uses One Year as a Prism for His Rich Inner Life
boston.com/globe/.../nobel/1994/... |
1,210 words |
A review of Milosz's book The Year of the Hunter. |
'A Lament in Three Voices' Part I
'A Lament in Three Voices' Part II
users.erols.com/mietek/.../font> |
3,375 words
2,920 words |
Reviews by Helen Vendler of two books by Milosz: A Treatise on Poetry and Milosz's ABC's. |
Internet
Poetry Archive: Czeslaw Milosz
http://web.archive.org/web/20011211220746/www.ibiblio.org/dykki/poetry/milosz/milcov.html |
9 links |
The text and a reading by the poet of two poems - Conversation with Jeanne and A Poem for the End of the Century - with an written and spoken introduction - each in both Polish and English. The two set of webpages are very similar but not identical and viewers may find downloading the spoken material easier on one or the other. |
Internet
Poetry Archive: Czeslaw Milosz
ibiblio.org/ipa/milosz/index.html |
Avantgarde & Classicism
info-poland/.../milosz.html |
990 words |
Milosz's connections with the literary tradition: his his aversion to the avant-garde
and his use of classical means of expression. |
Catastrophism
info-poland/.../milosz/cata.htm
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520 words |
Milosz's ability to express a mood of threat and fear. |
Rescuing poetry
info-poland/.../milosz/Resc.html |
640 words |
The poet's dilemma: faced, in the aftermath WWII with the destruction, he pleads: "Leave to poets a moment of happiness, otherwise your world will perish."
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The Poem "Campo dei Fiori"
info-poland/.../milosz/Campo.htm |
1,260 words |
An analysis of the poem and consideration of the notion that poetry has the moral strength to face evil.
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Milosz: Triumphal poetry
info-poland/.../milosz/trium.htm |
1,250 words |
Poems that constitute projections of dreams of a world that "should be". |
Milosz: "Ars Poetica"
info-poland/.../milosz/ars.html |
1,450 words |
Milosz's poetic enquiry regarding the possibility of establishing rules for the art of poetry.
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Milosz: About Emigration
info-poland/.../milosz/emig.htm |
910 words |
Milosz's strivings to cope with being separated from his homeland, his love of the homeland's language, his feelings of isolation, hopelessness and resignation, but also aversion and protest.
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Milosz: Polish character
info-poland/.../milosz/poland.htm |
250 words |
Milosz's distress at various aspects of the Polish character, particularly as evidenced during the imposition of a communist regime on the country. |
Czeslaw Milosz - the moralist and the philosopher
info-poland/.../milosz/moralist.html |
1,500 words |
Man has to have something sacred, a kind of moral support - the poet intimates - has to respect the rules, otherwise being absolutely free - will reap chaos. |
Milosz - the Translator
info-poland/.../milosz/trans.htm |
145 words |
Notes on Milosz's translations of various books of the Bible into Polish. |
Milosz: Socrealism
info-poland/.../milosz/socre.htm |
160 words |
Milosz's thoughts about the philosophical attitudes prevailing in the post-war world and the accommodations that some made towards the official doctrines of the communist regime imposed on Poland. |
Miłosz nie żyje
bbc.co.uk/polish/..._milosz... |
630 words |
 The British Broadcasting Corporation Polish language orbituary |
Czeslaw Milosz
angelfire.com/scifi2/rsolecki
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1,100 words |
A biography by Prof. Roman Solecki |
Czeslaw Milosz / Czesław Miłosz (1911 - 2004)