Mr. Cogito (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Zbigniew Herbert
- First Published: 1974
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Intellectuals, Philosophy or philosophers, Mythology or myths, Power, personal or social, Politics, Europe or Europeans, Courage, World War II, Poetry or poets, Antiheroes, Dreams, Life, philosophy of, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Holocaust, Jewish, Poland or Polish people, Shakespeare, William, or Shakespearean plays, Mind and body
Zbigniew Herbert and Czeslaw Milosz are Poland’s two great contemporary poets; indeed, they are two of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. Significantly, the slightly older Milosz was one of the first to introduce Herbert’s work to the wider English-speaking audience in the 1965 anthology Postwar Polish Poetry and again three years later in Selected Poems (1968), translated by Milosz and Peter Dale Scott. A second Selected Poems, translated this time by John and Bogdana Carpenter, was published in 1977. Written following the author’s return to Poland...
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