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To begin where I am : selected essays / Czeslaw Milosz ; edited and with an introduction by Bogdana Carpenter and Madeline G. Levine.
Van Pelt Library PG7158.M553 A23 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miłosz, Czesław.
- Standardized Title:
- Prose works. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- Polish
- Subjects (All):
- Miłosz, Czesław--Translations into English.
- Miłosz, Czesław.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 462 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.
- Summary:
- "To Begin Where I Am" brings together a rich sampling of poet Milosz's prose writings. Spanning more than a half century, from an impassioned essay on human nature, wartime atrocities, and their challenge to ethical beliefs, this is a comprehensive selection of essays--some never before translated into English.
- Contents:
- Who was I?
- Notes on exile
- Happiness
- Dictionary of wilno streets
- After all
- Miss Anna and Miss Dora
- Journey to the west
- On Oscar Milosz
- The prioress
- Brognart: a story told over a drink
- Alpha the moralist
- Tiger
- Zygmunt Hertz
- Pity
- Letter to Jerzy Andrzejewski
- Speaking of a mammal
- Facing too large an expanse
- Religion and space
- Carmel
- To Robinson Jeffers
- Essay in which the author confesses that he is on the side of man, for lack of anything better
- The importance of Simone Weil
- Shestov, or the purity of despair
- Dostoevsky
- A philosopher
- Saligia
- If only this could be said
- Why religion?
- Remembrance of a certain love
- A semi-private letter about poetry
- Ruins and poetry
- Anus mundi
- Against incomprehensible poetry
- Reflections on T.S. Eliot
- Robert Frost
- On Pasternak soberly
- Notes about Brodsky.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [441]-454) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0374258902
- OCLC:
- 46810678
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