Elegy for the Departure

Name: Elegy for the Departure
Author: Zbigniew Herbert

by Zbigniew Herbert

Elegiac verses mourning historical departures, cultural loss, and mortality

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Zbigniew Herbert

Polish poet whose Mr Cogito poems use an ironic everyman figure to explore moral resistance under totalitarianism. He is one of the major Central European poets of the century.

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