Selected Poems: Zbigniew Herbert (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Herbert, Zbigniew

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ISBN 10: 0241654610 ISBN 13: 9780241654613

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2024

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Selected and introduced by J. M. Coetzee and Alissa Valles, an essential gathering of poetry from one of the twentieth century’s pre-eminent literary voices

be courageous when reason fails you be courageous
in the final reckoning it is the only thing that counts

Born in Poland, Zbigniew Herbert was one of the great poets of the twentieth century, moved throughout his work by a powerful sense of humanity in the darkest of times. This new selection brings together poems from across the whole of his writing life, from his first volume Chord of Light in 1956, to works published posthumously in 2024. Direct, lucid, sometimes impish in his ironic humour, and deeply informed not only by the history of his own time, but by the Classical world, here is a poet of huge imaginative range and profundity, who desires always to ‘touch the essence’: to get to the heart of life.

"He offers what we all need in an age of darkening anxiety and mistrust: a voice of lucid, truly humane observation and integrity. Ethical, often ironical, full of self-doubt; quick, original and vivid." Ruth Padel

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Zbigniew Herbert was born in Lwów, Poland, in 1924, and studied law, economics and philosophy at the universities of Krakow, Torun, and Warsaw. His books include Report from the Besieged City and Other Poems, Mr Cogito, Still Life with a Bridle and The King of the Ants. He died in 1998.

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Published for the centenary of his birth, a gathering of lucid, intensely lyrical poetry from one of the twentieth century's pre-eminent literary voices.

be courageous when reason fails you be courageous
in the final reckoning it is the only thing that counts

Zbigniew Herbert was one of the best-known and most-translated poets of post-war Poland, opposed alike to Communism, Fascism, nationalism and the Church, yet moved, throughout his work, by 'a powerful sense of right and wrong without a correspo

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0241654610
• ISBN 13: 9780241654613
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
• Herausgeber: Valles Alissa, Coetzee J M
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