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Czeslaw Miosz, success of the 1980 Nobel Reward for Literature, demonstrates upon poetry's testimony to the events of our own tumultuous time. Through the special perspectives of "my area of European countries", a classical and Catholic education, a significant come across with Marxism, and a life proclaimed by journeys and exiles, Milosz is rolling out a sensibility simultaneously warm and detached, flooded with specific recollection yet never hermetic or provincial. Milosz addresses many of the major problems of modern day poetry, beginning with the pessimism and negativism prompted by reductionist interpretations of man's dog origins. He examines the inclination of poets since Mallarmé to isolate themselves from society, and stresses the need for the poet to make himself part of the great human being family. One chapter is devoted to the strain between classicism and realism; Milosz is convinced poetry should be "a separate pursuit of the real". In "Ruins and Poetry" he talks about poems made of the wreckage of an civilization, specifically that of Poland after the horrors of World Warfare II. Finally, he expresses optimism for the entire world, predicated on a hoped-for better knowledge of the lessons of modern knowledge, on the appearing acknowledgement of humanity's oneness, and on mankind's growing awareness of its own background.

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