Witness of Poetry (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) - Hardcover

Milosz speaks in "The Witness of Poetry" with the sort of quiet, preeminent brilliance that makes his defense of poetry ...a classic for our time. Milosz is at all times direct, even simple. He has the ability to return the pleasure of poetry to ordinary readers, and in his prose, as here, he makes you suspect that the great intellectual sin of our time may be a fear of the obvious. By the strength of its condensed and lucid exposition, "The Witness of Poetry" provides us with a key to Milosz's poetic historiosophy, philosophy, and aesthetics. OF course, Milosz's entire work offers one of the most profound responses to the dilemmas of our century. Milosz's entire work offers one of the most profound responses to the dilemmas of our century. [Milosz] speaks in "The Witness of Poetry" with the sort of quiet, preeminent brilliance that makes his defense [of poetry]?a classic for our time.

world, based on a hoped-for better understanding of the lessons of modern science, on the emerging recognition of humanity's oneness, and on mankind's growing awareness of its own history.