Ocalenie

<i>Ocalenie</i>

Ocalenie ("Rescue") is a poetry collection by Czesław Miłosz. It was first published in 1945. Many of the poems collected were written in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation.[1][2][3]

First edition

Partial contents

  • "World: Naïve Poems"—a sequence of pastoral poems
    • "By the Peonies"
  • "Song on the End of the World"
  • "Campo dei Fiori"—"a civic-minded poem about people’s indifference to the deaths of others"[3]
  • "The Voices of Poor People"—cycle
    • "A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto"
  • "Dedication"

References

  1. Bainbridge, Charles (2 September 2006). "Witness to the World (review)". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  2. Mazurska, Joanna (August 2013). Making Sense of Czeslaw Milosz: A Poet's Formative Dialogue with his Transnational Audiences (PDF) (PhD thesis). Vanderbilt University. pp. 59–64. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
  3. Hirsch, Edward (30 June 2017). "Czeslaw Milosz's Invincible Reason". New Republic. Retrieved 31 July 2018.



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