1980
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anthology
breakdown of doctrines
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collection of poems
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coup of december
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Product details
- ISBN 9780520044760
- Weight: 227g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 08 Jul 1983
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This expanded edition of "Postwar Polish Poetry" (which was originally published in 1965) presents 125 poems by 25 poets, including Czeslaw Milosz and other Polish poets living outside Poland. The stress of the anthology is on poetry written after 1956, the year when the lifting of censorship and the berakdown of doctrines provoked and explosion of new schools and talents. The victory of Solidarity in August 1980 once again opened new vistas for a short time; the coup of December closed that chapter. It is too early yet to predict the impact these events will have on the future of Polish poetry.
Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) was born in Lithuania and was Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1980 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
