- Poetry, history and criticism, Translations into English
"A Treatise on Poetry is a great poem about some of the most terrible events in the twentieth century. Divided into four sections, the poem begins at the end of the nineteenth century as a comedy of manners and moves with a devastating momentum through World War I to the horror of World War II.
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- Author
- Czesław Miłosz
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 135
- Publisher
- HarperTrade, HarperCollins Publishers, Ecco Press
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780060934286
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Czesław Miłosz was a Lithuanian born Polish poet, prose writer and translator. From 1961 to 1998 he was a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1980 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czes%C5%82aw_Mi%C5%82osz
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