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The Eternal Moment (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

That the poetry of Czeslaw Milosz, winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature, has been largely neglected by academics in the English-speaking world is a dismaying but not altogether surprising fact. Although he has lived in the United States since 1960, he writes in Polish and, to complicate matters further, was born in a country, Lithuania, that is no longer a part of the prewar Polish Commonwealth. Milosz the poet has been less a presence in the American mind than Milosz the dissident, the diplomat working for the Communist state who found political asylum in France and whose first...

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