Czeslaw Milosz

Czeslaw Milosz (Czesław Miłosz) is a Polish American poet and essayist. He was born on June 30, 1911 in Szetejnie, Lithuania. Czeslaw Milosz won the Literature in 1980.

A diplomat for communist Poland, he broke with the government in 1951 and sought political asylum in France. In 1953 he received Prix Litt�raire Europ�en.

In 1961 he became a Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley, where he now is a Professor Emeritus.

In addition to his poetry, his book The Captive Mind is considered one of the finest studies of the condition of intellectuals under totalitarianism.

In The Captive Mind he said that the intellectuals who became dissidents were not necessarily the ones with the strongest minds, but those with the weakest stomachs. The mind can rationalize anything, but the stomach can only take so much.

He also said that as a poet he avoided touching his nation's wounds for fearing of making them holy.

Works:

Kompozycja (1930)
Podroz (1930)
Poemat o czasie zastyglym (1933)
Trzy zimy (1936)
Obrachunki
Wiersze (1940)
Piesn niepodlegla (1942)
Ocalenie (1945)
Traktat moralny (1947)
Zniewolony umysl (1953)
Zdobycie wladzy (1953)
Swiatlo dzienne (1953)
Dolina Issy
Traktat poetycki (1957)
Rodzinna Europa (1958)
Kontynenty (1958)
Czlowiek wsrod skorpionow (1961)
Krol Popiel i inne wiersze (1961)
Gucio zaczarowany (1965)
Widzenia nad Zatoka San Francisco (1969)
Miasto bez imienia (1969)
Prywatne obowiazki (1972)
Gdzie slonce wschodzi i kiedy zapada (1974)
Ziemia Ulro (1977)
Ogrod nauk (1979)
Hymn o perle (1982)
Nieobjeta ziemio (1984)
Kroniki (1987)
Dalsze okolice (1991)
Zaczynajac od moich ulic (1985)
Metafizyczna pauza (1989)
Poszukiwanie ojczyzny (1991)
Rok mysliwego (1991)
Na brzegu rzeki (1994)
Szukanie ojczyzny (1992)
Legendy nowoczesnosci (1996)
Zycie na wyspach (1997)
Piesek przydrozny (1997)
Abecadlo Milosza (1997)
Inne Abecadlo (1998)
Wyprawa w dwudziestolecie (1999)
To (2000)