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Czeslaw Milosz was a man of great gifts as a poet, thinker, and linguist, but above all he was a free spirit.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
* Czeslaw Milosz was a man of great gifts as a poet, thinker, and linguist, but above all he was a free spirit. Physically he looked the part too, as though he had been carved out of some very hard piece of wood. His life was a wonderfully enhancing response to the 20th century and its brutality. Born in Polish-speaking Lithuania in 1911, he was originally a subject of the last Russian czar. As a Pole, he began to write poems, and in due course--in the Polish underground army--he fought the Nazis. When the Communists came to power after the war, Milosz defected and soon published The Captive Mind, a vivid and poignant study of the damage Communism was doing to everything human and ...
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