The Gift Returned.(the poetry of Czeslaw Milosz)(Critical Essay)

From: World Literature Today | Date: September 22, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

In an homage to Czeslaw Milosz, the American Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky called him "an essential American poet-perhaps even the most important living American poet" (PR, 145). He went on to point out the unusual popularity of Milosz's poetry among young students: "When I ask them to choose a poem to learn by heart, it is often a poem by Czeslaw Milosz, in translation." This is a striking remark, and indicates the extraordinary place that Milosz's poetry occupies in the American poetic landscape. It also reveals an amazing journey from the earlier image of Milosz as an ...

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