![]() ![]() Milosz was born of Polish parents in the multi-ethnic world of Lithuania in 1911, and was raised and educated in Vilnius. His work has been accurately characterized as “one of the monumental splendors of poetry in our age” (Edward Hirsch, The New York Times Book Review) – Seamus HeaneyĬzeslaw Milosz, poet, essayist, translator, and literary historian, won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature, as a writer “who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man’s exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts”. He is among those members of humankind who have had the ambiguous privilege of knowing and standing far more reality than the rest of us. – Helen Vendler, New York Review of Books Milosz has the indomitable strength of the committed writer, urgently pouring out, for the past seventy years, works too numerous, and too complex, to be grasped in their entirety by any single reader’s mind. ![]() More about the Encounters with Polish Literature series and the timeline. Goldfarb will present a new topic in conversation with an expert on that author or book or movement in Polish literature. ![]() Encounters with Polish Literature is a video series for anyone interested in literature and the culture of books and reading. ![]()
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