Herbert, Zbigniew
Died: 1998 AD, at 73 years of age.
Nationality: Polish
Categories: Essayists, Poets, Writers
1924 - Zbigniew Herbert, born on the 29th of October in Lviv, W Ukraine (formerly Lwow, Poland). He was an influential Polish poet, essayist and moralist. A member of the Polish resistance movement during World War II, he is one of the best known and most translated post-war Polish writers.
1956 - His first collection was Struna swiatla Chords of Light.
1961 - 1983 - Later volumes include Studium przedmiotu, Study of the Object), Pan Cogito (Mr Cogito), and Raport z oblezonego miasta (Report from a Besieged City).
1992 - He returned to Warsaw, by this time seriously ill.
1994 - He praised the Cold War anti-communist spy Colonel Ryszard KukliDski in an open letter then president Lech WaBsa, and later also expressed support for the Chechen Dzjochar Dudajev.
1998 - He died on the 28th of July in Warsaw, Poland.
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The Collected Poems: 1956-1998 by Zbigniew Herbert (Paperback - Feb 1, 2008) This outstanding new translation brings a uniformity of voice to Zbigniew Herbert's entire poetic output, from his first book of poems,String of Light, in 1956, to his final volume, previously...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Barbarian In The Garden by Zbigniew Herbert (Paperback - Apr 30, 1986) Ten lyrical and passionate essays on the culture, art, and history of Western Europe written from the perspective of the post-Stalinist thaw of the 1960s...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Selected Poems by Zbigniew Herbert (Paperback - Jul 1, 1999) Blessed is the nation that in the course of a century could give the world two poets of Czeslaw Milosz's and Zbigniew Herbert's scope. Doubly blessed is the English-reader, for in this volume he gets... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Elegy For The Departure by Zbigniew Herbert (Hardcover - Feb 1, 1990) John Keats, in his "Ode on a Grecian Urn," first described scenes of sylvan revelry before proclaiming, "'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,'--that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."... |
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The King of the Ants by Zbigniew Herbert (Hardcover - Nov 9, 1999) Although he never quite attained the fame of his compatriots Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska, the late Zbigniew Herbert was one of the giants of contemporary Polish letters--not to mention...  |
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Through the Poet's Eye: The Travels of Zagajewski, Herbert, and Brodsky by Bozena Shallcross (Hardcover - Jun 25, 2002) An exploration of the sensory experience of travel and the corresponding revelatory perception of the visual arts in the essays of three major East European poets... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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