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Title: A Treatise on Poetry by Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Hass ISBN: 0-06-018524-4 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 10 April, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
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Summary: A reading experience and textual event not to be missed.
Comment: Every poet should read this seminal work. And if you're not a poet, you should read "A Treatise" to understand poetry, learn history and tune into your inner self. It is a reading experience and a textual event that should not be missed.Milosz has written one of the great poems of our century. It is a shame that it took half a century to get the full English translation out, which corrects a serious deficit in the cultural terms of trade between Poland and the English-speaking world. It is as if Shakespeare's Hamlet or Othello has only just been translated into Polish. If you're familiar with "The Wasteland" of TS Eliot, you will compare "A Treatise on Poetry" very favourably to to the 1922 modernist classic. Indeed, it is an improvement on Eliot's masterpiece in four crucial respects. First, "A Treatise" maintains an overall structure and form that the amorphous "Wasteland" lacks. The English translation may not have retained the metrical structure of the original, but conveys the sense of form Milosz carefully constructed to carry his theme. Second, although the poem manipulates myth and symbols to register the brutal truths of our century, it does not shy from recording historical events or capturing the drama of individual lives. Despite its wide historical canvas, stories of our innermost being are told and you will enter the skin of real lives long consigned to dust. Third, the poem addresses you at several levels. Its tone ranges from the bright, breezy and hopeful to the elegaic and tragic and downshifts to a deep and quiet understanding. The modulations in mood and voice are exceptionally rendered, making the reading of the poem an experience in itself. Fourth, "A Treatise on Poetry" lives up to its title without ever being ponderous, technical or trite. Reading the detailed notes to illuminate the symbolic shorthand of the verse enhances your reading experience. With an intimate understanding of Polish poetry, its pracititioners and their interaction with the driving forces of the first half-century, Milosz offers a compelling portrait of poetry's potential, its limitations, and its reach. You will come away despairing of humanity, but sanguine about the value and use of poetry. In conclusion, Milosz has written a great work of art that defies easy paraphrase, facile criticism or quick comparisions. It must simply be experienced. I am quite confident that it will be considered one of the greatest poems of our century in the years ahead.
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Title: New and Collected Poems : 1931-2001 by Czeslaw Milosz ISBN: 0060514485 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays by Madeline Levine, Czeslaw Milosz, Bogdana Carpenter ISBN: 0374528594 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 02 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Road-Side Dog by Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Haas ISBN: 0374526230 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 29 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Postwar Polish Poetry: An Anthology by Czeslaw Milosz, Czesaw Miosz ISBN: 0520044762 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: February, 1984 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz ISBN: 0679728562 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 11 August, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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