Between Anxiety and Hope: The Writings and Poetry of Czeslaw Milosz

Czeslaw Milosz's poetry and other writings are becoming more widely read, especially since he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. This collection of essays gives a cross-sectional view of major themes and motifs in Milosz's poetry, prose, and criticism, concentrating primarily on such questions as catastrophism, the concept of reality, Classicism, and political prose. Contents......Page 6 Abbreviations......Page 8 Preface......Page 10 Acknowledgments......Page 16 About the Contributors......Page 18 Between the Universals of Moral Sensibility and Historical Consciousness: Notes on the Writings of Czeslaw Milosz......Page 22 Czeslaw Milosz's Apocalypse......Page 51 The Idea of Reality in the Poetry of Czeslaw Milosz......Page 109 Warnings to the West: Czeslaw Milosz's Political Prose of the 1950s......Page 133 Irony and Choice: Milosz in the Late Forties and Early Fifties......Page 155 Milosz as Witness......Page 162 Milosz and Post-War Polish Poetry......Page 174 Appendix: Czeslaw Milosz's Appearances in Canada: Milosz in Ottawa, 1984......Page 184 Milosz in Toronto, 1977, 1980, & 1982......Page 187 Milosz in Edmonton, 1972 & 1981......Page 192 A List of Czeslaw Milosz's Books......Page 196 Selected Bibliography of Literary Criticism on Czeslaw Milosz......Page 200 E......Page 202 Z......Page 203 H......Page 204 T......Page 205 Z......Page 206 D......Page 207 N......Page 208 S......Page 209 W......Page 210 Z......Page 211