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Ocalenie

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Ocalenie
by Czesław Miłosz
First edition
CountryPoland
LanguagePolish
PublisherCzytelnik Publishing House
Publication date1945; 81 years ago (1945)

Ocalenie ([ɔt͡saˈlɛɲɛ]; 'Rescue') is a poetry collection by Czesław Miłosz. It was first published in 1945. Many of the poems collected were written in Warsaw during its Nazi occupation.[1][2][3]

Partial contents

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  • "World: Naïve Poems"—a sequence of pastoral poems
    • "By the Peonies"
  • "Song on the End of the World"
  • "Campo dei Fiori"—"a civic-minded poem about people’s indifference to the deaths of others"[3]
  • "The Voices of Poor People"—cycle
    • "A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto"
  • "Dedication"

References

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  1. Bainbridge, Charles (2 September 2006). "Witness to the World (review)". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  2. Mazurska, Joanna (August 2013). Making Sense of Czeslaw Milosz: A Poet's Formative Dialogue with his Transnational Audiences (PDF) (PhD thesis). Vanderbilt University. pp. 59–64. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
  3. 1 2 Hirsch, Edward (30 June 2017). "Czeslaw Milosz's Invincible Reason". New Republic. Retrieved 31 July 2018.