Ecstatic Pessimist: Czeslaw Milosz, Poet of Catastrophe and Hope by Peter Dale Scott, Peter Dale Scott

Ecstatic Pessimist: Czeslaw Milosz, Poet of Catastrophe and Hope
Peter Dale Scott, Peter Dale Scott
Page: 370
Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
ISBN: 9781538172445
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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Ecstatic Pessimist is a timely book about the Central and Eastern European experience of the mid 20th century, as told through the poetry and experiences of Czeslaw Milosz, Nobel Laureate for literature, who wrote on the horrors of war and the human experience. Written by a colleague and friend of the poet, it is part literary criticism and part memoir.   This biography/memoir of Czesław Miłosz is a first hand account of the poet’s life and his relationship to the author, beginning in the 1960s. Milosz was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, the Swedish Academy called Miłosz a writer who "voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts".

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