Tadeusz Rozewicz is Poland's most popular and influential poet. Born in 1921, he belongs to the generation of writers whose work was indelibly marked by Poland's traumatic and tragic war-time experience. Rejecting traditional aesthetic values - which struck him as offensive in the face of what he had witnessed - Rozewicz has created a stark, direct poetry rooted in common speech. Yet Rozewicz's poetry is not confined to recording the horrors of war. "They Came to See a Poet" includes poems addressing childhood, friendship, ...
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Tadeusz Rozewicz is Poland's most popular and influential poet. Born in 1921, he belongs to the generation of writers whose work was indelibly marked by Poland's traumatic and tragic war-time experience. Rejecting traditional aesthetic values - which struck him as offensive in the face of what he had witnessed - Rozewicz has created a stark, direct poetry rooted in common speech. Yet Rozewicz's poetry is not confined to recording the horrors of war. "They Came to See a Poet" includes poems addressing childhood, friendship, love, eroticism, art, the poet's role and obligations, religion, ageing, death and the anxieties of modern civilization. In 2003, Tadeusz Rozewicz was awarded the Montale Prize, the latest of many awards and honours.
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