Overview :Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) felt that part of his role as a poet and critic was to bear witness to bloodshed and terror as well as to beauty.... Read More
Overview :Ren Girard (1923-2015) was one of the leading thinkers of our era--a provocative sage who bypassed prevailing orthodoxies to offer a bold, ... Read More
Overview :Biography -- Literary CriticismJoseph Brodsky (1940-1996) is unquestionably the greatest poet to emerge from postwar Russia and one of the g... Read More
Overview :Brodsky's poetic career in the West was launched when Joseph Brodsky: Selected Poems was published in 1973. Its translator was a scholar and... Read More
Overview :Czeslaw Milosz (1911 2004) often seemed austere and forbidding to Americans, but those who got to know him found him warm, witty, and endles... Read More
Overview :Some academics beguile you with a few interesting ideas while other academics shake your world. René Girard belongs in the second camp. He d... Read More