
Selected Poems
by Zbigniew Herbert
Title:
Selected Poems
Author:
Zbigniew Herbert
Series (if any):
Penguin Modern Classics
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
288 pages
Publisher:
TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale
ISBN-13:
9780241654613
EAN:
9780241654613
Classifications:
Poetry
Weight (g):
336
Dimensions (mm):
197 x 130 x 19
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
Selected and introduced by J. M. Coetzee and Alissa Valles, an essential gathering of poetry from one of the twentieth century's pre-eminent literary voices be courageous when reason fails you be courageous in the final reckoning it is the only thing that countsBorn in Poland, Zbigniew Herbert was one of the great poets of the twentieth century, moved throughout his work by a powerful sense of humanity in the darkest of times. This new selection brings together poems from across the whole of his writing life, from his first volume Chord of Light in 1956, to works published posthumously in 2024. Direct, lucid, sometimes impish in his ironic humour, and deeply informed not only by the history of his own time, but by the Classical world, here is a poet of huge imaginative range and profundity, who desires always to 'touch the essence': to get to the heart of life."He offers what we all need in an age of darkening anxiety and mistrust: a voice of lucid, truly humane observation and integrity. Ethical, often ironical, full of self-doubt; quick, original and vivid." Ruth Padel




















