From: World Literature Today | Date: March 22, 1999| Author: Gomori, George | COPYRIGHT 1999 University of Oklahoma. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Zbigniew Herbert. Epilog burzy. Wroc_aw, Pol. Dolnoalskie. 1998. 78 pages. 14 z_. ISBN 83-7023-658-8.

Zbigniew Herbert, who died in July 1998 at age seventy-four, was one of the most accomplished Polish poets of our age. Though the Nobel Prize eluded him (it went first to the very distinguished Czes_aw Mi_osz [see WLT 52:3, pp. 357-475] in 1980, and then in 1996 to Poland's finest woman poet, Wis_awa Szymborska [see WLT 71:1, pp. 5-12]), Herbert was awarded a number of l...