Czeslaw Milosz
Polish-American poet and essayist who won the Nobel Prize in 1980. His poetry engages history, memory, and metaphysics with unusual philosophical range, and The Captive Mind is his most celebrated prose work.
Works
- The Issa ValleyLithuanian pastoral novel of childhood memory and village life before Soviet occupation
- The Seizure of PowerPolish essayistic novel analyzing communism's intellectual seduction and ideological power
- Issa ValleyLithuanian pastoral novel of childhood memory and village life before Soviet occupation
- The Captive MindEssayistic exploration of how communist ideology captured the minds of twentieth-century intellectuals
- Native RealmPolish autobiographical memoir of intellectual and spiritual journey across occupied Europe
- Rescue
- The World
- Treatise on PoetryPolish philosophical poem exploring human existence and the nature of poetry itself
- Unattainable Earth
- New and Collected Poems