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Zbigniew Herbert was born on October 29, 1924, in Lwów, Poland.
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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 Zbigniew Herbert's work rendered by Czeslaw Milosz: like the poor, or better yet like nature herself, Polish genius takes care of its own. This collection is bound for a much longer haul than any of us can anticipate. For Zbigniew Herbert's poetry adds to the biography of civilization the sensibility of a man not defeated by the century that has been most thorough, most effective in dehumanization of the species. Herbert's irony, his austere reserve and his compassion, the lucidity of his lyricism, the intensity of his sentiment toward classical antiquity, are not just trappings of a modern poet, but the necessary armor--in his case well-tempered and shining indeed--for man not to be crushed by the onslaught of reality. By offering to his readers neither aesthetic norethical discount, this poet, in fact, saves them frorn that poverty which every form of human eviI finds so congenial. As long as the species exists, this book will be timely. -- Joseph Brodsky
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( Ten lyrical and passionate essays on the culture, art, ...)
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.
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Acantilado. Barcelona. 2010. 21 cm. 281 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'El Acantilado', numero coleccion(205). Herbert, Zbigniew 1924-1998. Traducción del polaco de Xavier Farré. Título original: Barbarzy?ca w ogrodzie. Europa. Civilización .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 978-84-92649-51-8
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One of the finest and most original writers and one of the greatest Polish writers of the 20th century. Herbert is a figure comparable to, say, T. S. Eliot or W. H. Auden. Edward Hirsch, The New Yorker Polish essayist, poet, and spiritual leader of his nations anti-Communist movement, the late Zbigniew Herbert is a literary giant whose writings are revered throughout Europe and the world. A companion volume to the authors Collected Poems (Ecco 2007), Collected Prose is the only English language edition of the award-winning writers prose works collected in a single, beautiful, accessible volumeincluding in their entirety his renowned Labyrinth on the Sea, Still Life with a Bridle, King of the Ants, and Barbarian in the Garden.
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The long-awaited first Polish-English selection of Zbigniew Herbert's poems translated by John and Bogdana Carpenter, Czeslaw Milosz and Peter Dale Scott.
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In Still Life with a Bridle, poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert takes an intriguing look at the cultural, artisitic, and aesthetic legacy of 17th-century Holland. These sixteen essays reveal Herbert's discriminating artistic eye and poetic sensibility, one that revels in irony, humor, and a satirist's appreciation of the absurd. An inveterate museum-goer, he focuses on the art of the Dutch masters, using it as a stepping-off point for a thoroughly individual and entertaining examination of the foibles, genius, and character of the Dutch people as a whole. The result is an unorthodox and revealing glimpse into the past that gives us a keener understanding not only of a distant people, but of ourselves as well.
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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 unpublished in English, Epilogue Of the Storm. Collected Poems: 1956-1998, as Joseph Brodsky said of Herbert's SSelected Poems, is "bound for a much longer haul than any of us can anticipate." He continues, "For Zbigniew Herbert's poetry adds to the biography of civilization the sensibility of a man not defeated by the century that has been most thorough, most effective in dehumanization of the species. Herbert's irony, his austere reserve and his compassion, the lucidity of his lyricism, the intensity of his sentiment toward classical antiquity, are not just trappings of a modern poet, but the necessary armorin his case well-tempered and shining indeedfor man not to be crushed by the onslaught of reality. By offering to his readers neither aesthetic nor ethical discount, this poet, in fact, saves them frorn that poverty which every form of human evil finds so congenial. As long as the species exists, this book will be timely."
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Zbigniew Herbert was born on October 29, 1924, in Lwów, Poland.
After the war he studied economics, law, and philosophy at the universities of Krakow, Torun.
He began to write poetry in adolescence while, at the same time, in the early 1940's, he joined the underground resistance to the Nazis. Finally, he settled in Warsaw and became a professional writer. Herbert has deliberately forged a cool, economical, antirhetorical style suspicious of grand effects, of what one poem calls "the artificial fires of poetry. " Again, the moral as well as aesthetic value of descriptive detail and the attentive eye is one of his primary subjects. In his third book of poems, "Study of the Object" (1961), the integrity of inanimate objects is contrasted with the falsity of human beings. Herbert's "rapacious love of the concrete" is as evident in his essays as in his poems. He made up his book on the golden age of Dutch art, "Still Life with a Bridle" (1991). For him the 17th-century Dutch love for objects, preserved in the countless paintings that were as commonplace in middle-class homes as the objects themselves, epitomized both a moral code and exemplary image of civilization. Herbert's other major prose work, "Barbarian in the Garden" (1985), consists of essays on such subjects as the cave paintings at Lascaux, the Greek temple ruins at Paestum, the construction of French Gothic cathedrals, the Cathedral of Orvieto, and the paintings of Piero della Francesca. Ostensibly a travel book with the author the "barbarian" (the outsider, the Eastern European) and Mediterranean culture the "garden, " it is, more profoundly, a meditation on the beauty and pathos of the ancient world.
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On 29 March 1968, he married Katarzyna Dzieduszycka.