Still Life With a Bridle: Zbigniew Herbert - Hardcover

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Zbigniew Herbert (29 October 1924 in Lwow [then Poland, now Lviv, Ukraine] - 28 July 1998 in Warsaw) was a Polish poet,essayist, drama writer, author of plays, and moralist. A member of the Polish resistance movement, Home Army (AK), during World War II, he is one of the best known and the most translated post-war Polish writers.

Poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert takes an intriguing look at the cultural, artistic, and aesthetic legacy of 17th-century Holland. 

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In these sixteen essays, the poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert brings the Dutch 17th century alive: the people, as they bid crippling sums of money for one bulb of a new variety of tulip; the painters like Torrentius who loved women, was persecuted for heresy and whose paintings disappeared - all but one, named 'Still Life with a Bridle'.