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...Czeslaw Milosz, Norton Professor of Poetry and a Nobel Prize-winning Polish dissident, is "a poet tormented by the shortcomings of language," a Faculty colleague of Milosz's told an audience of about 150 in Boylston Hall yesterday...
...December, he received permission to make a one-day visit to Stockholm for ceremonies honoring Nobel Prize-winning Polish author Czeslaw Milosz...
Once again the 1980 honors list is dominated by Americans. Since World War II, the U.S. has won 131 prizes, nearly triple the number of its closest challenger, Britain, with 47. Two weeks ago, the literature prize went to Polish-born Poet Czeslaw Milosz, 69, now a U.S. citizen, and the medicine prize to three immunologists, Jean Dausset, 63 (France), George Snell, 76 (U.S.), and Baruj Benacerraf, 59 (U.S.). Last week Americans took five awards: two for physics, two for chemistry, one for economics. The other two went to a Briton and an Argentine...
...Milosz the poet, however, who has been suddenly thrust before the world. Works such as Selected Poems (Seabury Press, New York) and Bells in Winter (Ecco Press, New York) have long attracted glowing attention from other writers and poets, especially those who share Milosz's state of spiritual and political exile. Says fellow Pole Jerzy Kosinski: "He remains very Slavic in his idiom and main obsession: What is the essence of life? Why are we here? It is not how to live, but why, for the sake of what?" Emigré Poet Joseph Brodsky adds: "What this poet preaches...
...Milosz himself is more diffident. Asked at a hastily arranged press conference to explain the meaning of his work, he replied: "If I could say it in a few words, I wouldn't have to write poetry...