and as a young man moved to Warsaw, where he survived the war, working in the underground resistance, publishing anti-Nazi poems and, in 1943, writing "The World", one of the most bewitching sequences of the century.What "The World" did, at a moment when brutality and atrocity were the daily reality, was to create a picture of the very opposite state of affairs. In this idyll, children are trusting and secure, parents kind and reliable, the landscape and seasons a storybook delight.
from The Guardian: Seamus Heaney on Czesław Miłosz's centenary
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Hi! Milosz is a great artist. I was lucky to get all his works from my University last year. I spent hours and hours analysing his material, it is pretty astonishing. I would recommend every English student to work on his poems.
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