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Lädt ... A Treatise on Poetryvon Czesław Miłosz
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Milosz’s commentary on the state of poetry and history is both heart-breaking and beautiful. His laments are full of a strange ecstasy. The last section of the piece almost rivals Frost’s pastoral poetry. This new volume also include copious explanatory notes for those not quite well-versed in Eastern European history. http://lifelongdewey.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/891-a-treatise-on-poetry-by-czesla... Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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The Nobel Prize-winning poet Czeslaw Milosz began his remarkable A Treatise on Poetry in the winter of 1955 and finished it in the spring of 1956. It was published originally in parts in the Polish #65533;migr#65533; journal Kultura. Now it is available in English for the first time in this expert translation by the award-winning American poet Robert Hass. A Treatise on Poetry is a great poem about some of the most terrible events in the twentieth century. Divided into four sections, the poem begins at the end of the nineteenth century as a comedy of manners and moves with a devastating momentum through World War I to the horror of World War II. Then it takes on directly and plainly the philosophical abyss into which the European cultures plunged. "Author's Notes" on the poem appear at the end of the volume. A stunning literary composition, these notes stand alone as brilliant miniature portraits that magically re-create the lost world of prewar Europe. A Treatise on Poetry evokes the European twentieth century, its comedy and terror and grief, with the force and expressiveness of a great novel. A tone poem to a lost time, a harrowing requiem for the century's dead, and a sober meditation on history, consciousness, and art: here is a masterwork that confronts the meaning of the twentieth century with a directness and vividness that are without parallel. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)891.8517Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages West and South Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Slovene, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, and Macedonian) Polish Polish poetry 1919–1989Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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He basically admits somewhere in the book that poetry that comments politically and socially tends to be forgotten when whatever the current political or social obsession passes.
The poetry that "contemplates the eternal truths" as he puts is the poetry that lasts.
For all the beauty of this book-long poem, much of the thinking behind it irritated me. ( )