A Fugitive from Utopia The Poetry of Zbignew Herbert |
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Author:
| Baranczak, Stanislaw |
ISBN: | 978-0-674-32685-9 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1987 |
Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $81.00 |
Book Description:
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Baranczak--a poet, critic, translator, and Polish émigré--supplies politico-cultural context for Herbert while analyzing the texts and themes of his poems. Herbert's poetry, he shows, is based on permanent confrontation--of Western tradition with the experience of an Eastern European, of classicism with modernity, of cultural myth with empiricism.
Baranczak--a poet, critic, translator, and Polish émigré--supplies politico-cultural context for Herbert while analyzing the texts and themes of his poems. Herbert's poetry, he shows, is based on permanent confrontation--of Western tradition with the experience of an Eastern European, of classicism with modernity, of cultural myth with empiricism.