Selected Poems
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- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
17 February 2025
Summary
The Essence of Being: Selected Poems of Zbigniew Herbert
Published for the centenary of his birth, this collection gathers the lucid, intensely lyrical poetry of Zbigniew Herbert, one of the twentieth century’s pre-eminent literary voices.
be courageous when reason fails you be courageous in the final reckoning it is the only thing that counts
Zbigniew Herbert was one of the best-known and most-translated poets of post-war Poland. Opposed to Communism, Fascism, nat…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241654613 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241654610 |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Author: | Zbigniew Herbert, Alissa Valles, J.M. Coetzee |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 17 February 2025 |
| Weight: | 212g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 17mm |
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Critics Review
He offers what we all need in an age of darkening anxiety and mistrust: a voice of lucid, truly humane observation and integrity. Ethical, often ironical, full of self-doubt; quick, original and vivid. – Ruth PadelThe power of these poems reminds us what language is for; here are lines that do history’s heavy lifting, ‘offering to the betrayed world a rose’. – Ian McMillanHerbert’s poems, even in English, seem to me finer than anything currently being written by any English or American poet * The New York Review of Books *Herbert is a poet with all the strength of Antaeus … He shoulders the whole sky and the scope of human dignity with responsibility – Seamus Heaney
About The Author
Zbigniew Herbert
Zbigniew Herbert was born in Lw w, Poland, in 1924, and studied law, economics and philosophy at the universities of Krakow, Torun, and Warsaw. His books include Report from the Besieged City and Other Poems, Mr Cogito, Still Life with a Bridle and The King of the Ants. He died in 1998.
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