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Poetry of Czesław Miłosz

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560:"When my guardian angel (who resides in an internalized external space) is triumphant, the earth looks precious to me and I live in ecstasy; I am perfectly at ease because I am surrounded by a divine protection, my health is good, I feel within me the rush of a mighty rhythm, my dreams are of magically rich landscapes, and I forget about death, because whether it comes in a month or five years it will be done as it was decreed, not by the God of the philosophers but by the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. When the devil triumphs, I am appalled when I look at trees in bloom as they blindly repeat every spring what has been willed by the law of natural selection; the sea evokes in me a battlegound of monstrous, antediluvian crustaceans, I am oppressed by the randomness and absurdity of my individual existence, and I fell excluded from the world's rhythm, cast up from it, a piece of detritus, and then the terror: my life is over, I won't get another, only death now." 278:
loyally bound for half a century, the intensifying animus prescient to the start of World War II - prompted a fundamental change in Miłosz. Miłosz's misanthropy (he had theretofore thought of humans as "beasts") softened into a deep sympathy for individual people ("small souls") lost or forgotten within enormous political apparatuses. In 1938, he published in quick succession two articles, "Almost the Dusk of the Gods" and "The Lie of Today's Poetry," which argued that poets had scrubbed all the humanity from their art by refusing to reveal their inner life and by being too concerned with
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It was also during this period of time that Miłosz met Janina (Janka) Dłuska who would become, in the near future, his wife (though she was married at the time). The confluence of these factors in 1938-1939 - his new and influential friendships, his growing affection for the woman to whom he would be
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Miłosz's poetry contains this type of historical burden, and Miłosz maintained over his whole body of work the need to engage with the particulars of historical context in order to properly sketch humanity. Miłosz often uses nature, broadly, in his poetry as a vehicle to describe his philosophies of
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to work for Polish Radio. He had little free time, but Miłosz was successful in his position, and he graduated from relative poverty into financially comfortable straits. The time-demand of his work frustrated his art, as did his opinion of Warsaw which he called "a Babylon of depravity.". In 1938,
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Miłosz's work enjoyed wide recognition in Poland (both before and after his defection) despite governmental disavowal and state-sanctioned subversion of his writing. Miłosz's receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1980 marked the beginning of his wider international fame. Publishers issued reprints of his
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In 1949, Miłosz returned to Poland and found himself increasingly concerned with the political situation. Unable to conceal his reticence for the state of the Polish government, Miłosz was reassigned to Paris by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the request of the Paris ambassador to prevent
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The duality of Miłosz's Pantheistic-Christian ontology largely manifests in his depictions of the natural world which oscillate between treatment of the Earth as a source of beauty and instruction and flinching from it as a site of random violence and the assimilation of the individual into
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in 1936 garnered attention for the young Miłosz within Poland's literary circles, and Miłosz's name began to appear in notable public venues. As political tensions rose in the following months and years, Miłosz maintained his left-leaning sympathies but gradually found himself increasingly
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Over the course of World War II, Miłosz's poetry evolved toward "poetic directness," a new poetic ethic in which the poet which was sovereign of the expectations of the reader and committed to providing the reader wisdom as the poet saw it. Under this ethos, Miłosz produced
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321:, and he openly admired the spare quality of American diction, something he would subsequently adopt. In addition to excelling in his diplomatic position, Miłosz became actively involved in organizing and attending events related to the American arts community. 422:, 1962-1969 — Miłosz moves to America in 1960 but continues to publish in Paris; maintains an overt affinity for the ideas of Weil, specifically with the idea that "contradiction is the lever of transcendence". This stage of poetry widely varies in form. 591:. Translators have noted that Miłosz's poetry in Polish relies on a cadenced polyphony that is lost when translated into English, as is Miłosz's ability to find and deploy forgotten Polish diction to the end of invoking a specific Polish history. 579:
history. Evolutionary nature proceeds by virtue of "necessity" which serves as a shorthand for "necessary violence," a type of the violence exacted by the Nazis and Stalinists in WWII. This violence both manifests and extinguishes individuals.
298:, a cycle of twenty poems. These poems, in contrast to his earlier work, were all rhymed with eight lines of eleven syllables. Miłosz's concerns for the moral state of his country grew following the end of the war. The influx of refugees into 342:(a student of Miłosz and one of his preeminent English translators) proposed a rough division of Miłosz's work into five stages (Hass applied this division to both Miłosz's poetry and prose, though only the poetry is listed here) 569:
Miłosz's poetry treats history as one of the only practical mechanisms by which individual people or groups can materialize out of otherwise indiscernible and impersonal populations. In 1968, Miłosz insisted that,
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where he met many of the poets with whom he would later collaborate to translate his poetry into English. He lived and worked in the U.S. until returning to Poland in 2000 before his eventual death in 2004.
455:, 1969-1987 — Continues to experiment with a broad array of forms. This writing features "ontological vertigo," or the refusal to resolve the existential questions that the writing introduces. 87:
prose works, but the public at-large tended to treat his poetry as a monolith until the mid-1980s when scholars, some of them students of Miłosz, published specific treatments of his poetry.
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Miłosz's poems perennially reflect the pain and destruction of his wartime experience, but they also orbit Miłosz's concern about the absence of moral law in his contemporary landscape.
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After his 1980 Nobel Prize, Miłosz continued to write until his death in 2004. Of the ten collections he wrote in Polish during this time, seven have been translated into English.
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writer.: Miłosz's transition from Polish-language texts to English reflects his tumultuous political background. Miłosz passed, like Poland itself, through the
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Miłosz spent a year in Paris where he was introduced into several of the then-major Parisian artistic cohorts. Following his return, he began work for the
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Despite his disavowal of the mainstream Polish-communist movement, Miłosz was labeled a communist sympathizer (probably due to his engagement with
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who worked for the French-Lithuanian delegation and who became a mentor to Miłosz over the next years until his death in 1939. Miłosz published
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Baranczak, Stanislaw (1993). "Polish Poetry". In Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T.V.F.; Warnke, Frank J.; Hardison, O.B.; Miner, Earl (eds.).
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without paying royalties, and the two began a friendship. Following his travel to London, Miłosz was sent to
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should be foremost of social and political import rather than self-consciously formal and preoccupied with
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Franaszek, Andrzej (2017). Parker (ed. and trans.), Aleksandra; Parker (ed. and trans.), Michael (eds.).
102:. The wartime violence of the early and mid 20th century in Poland, particularly the extreme violence of 43: 279: 247: 243: 19: 859:
Miłosz, Czesław (20 January 1936). "List do obrońców kultury (Letters to the Defenders of Culture)".
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elements within the Wilno station, and he felt compelled to leave his position. In 1937, he moved to
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Miłosz's writing (specifically his poetry) evolved over the course of his career from the political
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for five weeks where he met T.S. Eliot who gave Miłosz permission to publish his translation of
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in 1936. This second collection adopted a much more mystical (what scholars would later call "
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which he encountered as part of his enduring affinity for the writings of Simone Weil.
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where he studied from 1930-1934. In 1931 he helped found the short-lived poetry group
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In 1945, Miłosz applied for and received a diplomatic appointment. He travelled to
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disenchanted with the Polish-Communist movement. Among his complaints was a rising
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and takes issue with the idea of historical necessity. Strongly influenced by
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scaffolding of his aesthetic framework as well as initiated an interest in
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in 1933, his first major collection, followed by the much less political
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Miłosz became actively involved with literature as a law student at the
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Much of Miłosz's poetry demonstrates a tension between Pantheistic and
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Between Anxiety and Hope: The Poetry and Writing of Czesław Miłosz
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for "brushwood") alongside likeminded left-leaning poets, such as
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Following his graduation in 1934 and the informal dissolution of
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In 1931, Miłosz briefly visited Paris where he met his cousin
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had moved contemporary writing away from the metaphysics and
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The form of Miłosz's poetry can be described, generally, as
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of the Catastrophists into writing broadly interested in
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Cosmic connections: poetry in the age of disenchantment
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The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
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Czesław Miłosz
1980 Nobel Prize in Literature
Polish
Russian Empire
Polish-Lithuanian War
Nazi
Warsaw Uprising
Polish resistance
communism
Stalin
Paris
France
United States
University of California, Berkeley
surrealism
metaphysics
polyphony
World War II
University of Vilnius
Lithuanian
Jerzy Zagórski
Teodor Bujnicki
Jerzy Putrament
apocalyptic
Europe
Earth
aesthetics
Oscar Miłosz
pantheistic

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