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

Herbert, Zbigniew

 
9780241654613: Selected Poems: Zbigniew Herbert (Penguin Modern Classics)
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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

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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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