Herbert, Zbigniew

Herbert, Zbigniew ( 1924 – 98 ),
Polish poet and essayist, born in Lvov, whose predominantly political poetry has appeared in English as Selected Poems ( 1968 , repr. 1985 , translated by Milosz and Peter Dale Scott ) and in another selection by John and Bogdana Carpenter (published 1977 ) who also translated his collection Report from the Besieged City, which appeared in English in 1985 . His last collection, The Epilogue of the Storm, appeared in 1998 .