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	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Nobel laureate Milosz dies at 93
		Czeslaw Milosz, 93, the Polish émigré writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980, in part for a powerful pre-mortem dissection of communism, in part for tragic, ironic poetry that set a standard for the world, died yesterday at his home in Krakow, his assistant, Agnieszka Kosinska, told The Associated Press.
		Milosz was often described as a poet of memory and a poet of witness.
		Czeslaw Milosz was born June 30, 1911, to a Polish-speaking family in Szetejnie, Lithuania, which together with Poland, Latvia and Estonia was part of the Russian empire at the time.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002005816_miloszobit15.html (633 words)

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		Milosz had lived in Krakow since the fall of the Iron Curtain allowed him to return home after almost 30 years in exile in France and the United States, a time in which he became a prominent symbol for anti-communist dissidents.
		Milosz's poetry was praised for its enormous range of subject matter and technique, and its mix of sensuousness and references to culture, religion and philosophy.
		Milosz also carried the burden of being an intellectual in exile, one whose poems were only published in his native country after he was awarded the Nobel Prize.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?BRD=1078&dept_id=151021&newsid=12696225&PAG=461&rfi=9 (829 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Czeslaw Milosz
		Milosz spent the remainder of the decade in Paris, where he had defected, struggling to support himself and his family, but since 1960 he had quietly taught in the Slavic languages department at Berkeley.
		Milosz was a Roman Catholic at heart, and his continued search for spiritual meaning in a world where moments of transcendent beauty implied a godhead amid the horrors of history and the dehumanization of science and technology can be understood in that context.
		Milosz was very excited and, his face flushed, ran from one side of the room to the other, introducing Popa to one person here and another one there, and making sure everything was in place for the reading.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/09.01.04/milosz-0436.html (2984 words)

	Bookslut \| Second Space by Czeslaw Milosz
		When the prolific Polish and Lithuanian poet Czeslaw Milosz died last summer at age 93, he left behind over 30 books in authoritative English language editions thanks mostly to the many collaborative book-length translation projects he completed with his close friends Robert Hass and Robert Pinsky.
		Before his death, Milosz, a prodigious figure in contemporary poetry, was hailed as both "one of the towering poets of the 20th century" by Robert Hass and as "one of the greatest poets of our time, perhaps the greatest" by Joseph Brodsky.
		Milosz was an audacious choice for the Swedish committee at the height of the Cold War.
	www.bookslut.com /poetry/2005_03_004680.php (777 words)

	Boston Globe Online / Table of Contents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		So, in this regard, Milosz is recording the 77th year of his life from August 1987 to August 1988 both as a chronological sequence of events and as a counterpoint of memory, emotion, allegory, fable, "unending amazement" and the compelling spectacle of a first-rate mind contemplating itself.
		The ethnic atmosphere of Wilno, "the Jerusalem of the North," notable as the hometown of the Yiddish novelist Chaim Grade, influenced Milosz's childhood.
		As Milosz points out, there was a difference between the Nazi occupation of France, which, despite its horrors, still retained a residue of respect for French civilization; and of Eastern Europe, where the Germans considered the population subhuman.
	www.boston.com /globe/search/stories/nobel/1994/1994o.html (945 words)

	Polish Poet Czeslaw Milosz, 93, Dies (washingtonpost.com)
		Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz, 93, one of the major poets of the violent 20th century whose unflinching view of man's inhumanity was tempered by his love of the world's beauty, died Aug. 14 at his home in Krakow, Poland.
		Milosz was born in what is now Lithuania and raised on the battle lines of Russia during World War I. His father built roads for the czarist army.
		Milosz left Poland, finding political asylum in France, where he published "The Captive Mind" (1953), a widely influential attack on the manner in which the Polish Communist Party destroyed the independence of the intelligentsia.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A1519-2004Aug14.html (837 words)

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		Czeslaw Milosz is born on June 30 in Szetejnie (or Seteiniai, in Kedainiai District, Lithuania), to Weronika nee Kunat and Aleksander Milosz, a highway engineer.
		Milosz's anthology of anti-Nazi poetry, "The Invincible Song", and his translation of Jacques Maritain's pro- de Gaulle "A travers le desastre" are published by underground presses in occupied Warsaw.
		Milosz moves to the United States to assume the position of lecturer in the department of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of California at Berkeley.
	www.ukprofind.com /milosz (1629 words)

	Blog of Death: Czeslaw Milosz
		Czeslaw Milosz, a Polish writer, educator and Nobel laureate, died on Aug. 14.
		Milosz was often suicidal during this time period, yet he channeled his pain into several books, including "The Captive Mind," which discussed the plight of intellectuals under communist rule.
		Milosz immigrated to the United States in 1960 and taught Slavic languages and literatures at the University of California, Berkeley, for more than 20 years.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/001134.html (308 words)

	Czeslaw Milosz - unfashionable poet
		Though Milosz is not necessarily conditioned by the world he has lived in he is attuned to it in a special way—the joys of creation and of his being Polish, and the disasters his metier and his birth entailed.
		For Milosz as for Blake the separation of art and moral problems is ridiculous: an understanding of the human situation has been his constant object.
		For Milosz the devil is the creator of the technological civilization in which we live and which oppresses us—technology is supplanting what is not human in us.
	www.southerncrossreview.org /33/milosz.htm (2695 words)

	Artful Dodge - Original Interviews - Czeslaw Milosz
		Milosz has that rare gift of seeing centuries in the movement of a man's arm at a table, the rare gift of talking in the same breath about the long dead adn the still fragilely alive.
		Milosz: Well, the term avant-garde is used in the history of Polish literature to delineate certain movements of the '20s and '30s.
		Milosz: The whole perspective of Solzhenitsyn is that of a Russian and of an heir to a certain Russian tradition, which holds that the West has been in a state of decline since the time of the Renaissance.
	www.wooster.edu /artfuldodge/interviews/milosz.htm (3707 words)

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		Czeslaw Milosz (Czesław Miłosz) is a Polish language poet and essayist.
		He was born on June 30, 1911 in Szetejnie, Lithuania and always underlined his connection to Grand Duchy de Lithuania.
		Czeslaw Milosz won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980, when he was an American.
	www.informationgenius.com /encyclopedia/c/cz/czeslaw_milosz.html (235 words)

	CZESLAW MILOSZ / 1911-2004 / Nobel poet, UC prof -- voice of moral clarity
		Czeslaw Milosz, a Nobel laureate and longtime UC Berkeley professor whose emotional and intellectually expansive poetry and prose were colored by his experiences from the wartime horror and political upheaval of the 20th century, died Saturday at his home in Krakow, Poland.
		Milosz, who abhorred totalitarianism, won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1980, as Solidarity worker protests were beginning to shake communist rule in Poland.
		Milosz was born in 1911 to a Polish-speaking family in Lithuania.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/08/15/MNGA988H5M1.DTL (934 words)

	Czeslaw Milosz Biography / Biography of Czeslaw Milosz Main Biography
		The Polish author and poet Czeslaw Milosz (born 1911), winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature, explored in his work both the rebirth of Christian belief and the corruption of thought by ideology.
		Czeslaw Milosz is one of the most important writers and poets to have emerged in Poland since World War II.
		Terence De Pres stated that Milosz' poetry deals "with the central issues of our time: the impact of history upon being, the search for ways to survive spiritual ruin in a ruined world." He was born on June 30, 1911 in Szetejnie, Lithuania then in Tsarist Russia, to Polish-Lithuanian parents.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-czeslaw-milosz (256 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Czeslaw Milosz
		Czeslaw Milosz, who has died aged 93, was perhaps the luckiest Polish writer of the last century, and not just because his achievement was crowned with the Nobel prize, world fame and grovelling recognition by the Polish communist government which since his defection in 1951 had sought to turn him into a non-person.
		Apart from his two novels, Milosz's prose works are made up of skilfully blended elements of philosophical reflections, literary criticism, biographical sketches of his friends and enemies and snatches of autobiography.
		Milosz's effortless command of the Polish language enabled him to produce a body of excellent translations from a wide range of English and American poets.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,,1283752,00.html (921 words)

	Czeslaw Milosz
		Nobel Prize-winning poet Czeslaw Milosz spoke of his life, his poems and his philosophies during a poetry reading held at the Library on April 3.
		Milosz explained that killing a water snake represents a grave sin in some pagan religions, a remnant of which remains in his childhood home, Lithuania.
		Milosz "the ceaseless inventiveness of an older poet." In 1995 Mr.
	www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/970421/milosz.html (547 words)

	Boston Globe Online / Table of Contents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When Milosz visited Warsaw last June, he was invited to meet with the young printers and publishers of the clandestine presses.
		Milosz separates each syllable as he speaks; innocent of the usual contractions and slurs of English as a native tongue, he stretches words out to their full length.
		Milosz has lived with apocalyptic visions for so long that he is not overly impressed by today's fear of the arms race.
	www.boston.com /globe/search/stories/nobel/1982/1982af.html (1671 words)

	Czeslaw Milosz
		After the outbreak of World War I, Aleksander Milosz was drafted into the Tsar's army, and as a combat engineer he built bridges and fortifications in front-line areas.
		Milosz graduated from high school in 1929, and in 1930 his first poems were published in Alma Mater Vilnenis, a university magazine.
		In 1980, Milosz was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
	www.miamipoetryreview.com /poets/milosz.shtml (454 words)

	Bad Subjects: Czeslaw Milosz: A Berkeley Reading (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Milosz arrived from a world that was closed to Americans in the '50s and '60s, of brief moments of interest with Solidarity in the '70s and early '80s, and now entirely disregarded except for economic condescension.
		Milosz began publishing poetry and essays in 1931 with the Zagary review group at the University of Wilno, and was an expressive witness to a century that Isaiah Berlin justifiably characterized as the most brutal in human history.
		The intensity of the poem bears witness to Milosz's sentiments, voiced in "Ars Poetica," that "poems should be written rarely and reluctantly." He raises the image of the Warsaw ghetto, where survival was the only question, as preface to a postwar Paris where the questions of recreating a world could be addressed.
	bad.eserver.org /reviews/2000/2000-2-14-8.44PM.html (1305 words)

	08.18.2004 - Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz dies
		The choice was characteristic of Milosz, who accepted his fame with some reluctance, saying he’d be “happy to go on in solitude writing poems in an exotic language,” and whose stature as a teacher was towering.
		In Conversations With Czeslaw Milosz the poet referred, for instance, to the rich trove of primary-source materials he unearthed in UC Berkeley libraries and made use of in his poetry — Lithuanian encyclopedias, his personal family tree, even German ordnance maps on which the house where he was born was marked.
		Milosz was born in Lithuania in 1911, then under the domination of the Russian tsar.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/berkeleyan/2004/08/18_milosz.shtml (1065 words)

	CBC News:Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		KRAKOW, POLAND - Czeslaw Milosz, a poet and Nobel laureate who was a prominent symbol for anti-communist dissidents in Poland, has died at age 93.
		Milosz died Saturday at his home in Krakow, in southern Poland, according to his assistant, Agnieszka Kosinska.
		Milosz initially supported Poland's Soviet-imposed communist government before he rejected the ideals of totalitarianism and defected to France in 1951.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/2004/08/14/milosv040814 (232 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| Seamus Heaney celebrates the life of Czeslaw Milosz
		On that occasion he was being ministered to by his daughter-in-law and perhaps it was her hovering attentions as much as his translated appearance that brought to mind the aged Oedipus being minded by daughters in the grove at Colonus, the old king who had arrived where he knew he would die.
		Milosz was well aware of this aspect of his work and explicit about his wish that poetry in general should be capable of providing such an elevated plane of regard.
		Milosz would have deeply understood and utterly agreed with John Keats's contention that the use of a world of pain and troubles was to school the intelligence and make it a soul.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,,1301022,00.html (2516 words)

	Robert Fulford's column about Czeslaw Milosz
		Lithuania, where Milosz was born to a Polish family, was erased from history when it was appropriated by the Soviet Union in 1940 -- and then was reborn in 1991 as the Republic of Lithuania.
		Milosz has always been anxious to remind us that dictatorship is not mainly a problem for intellectuals.
		Milosz, as much as anyone, has earned the right to pass judgment on his century and, in Road-Side Dog (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), the most striking passages describe the nihilism that has followed the decline of religion and the rise of science.
	www.robertfulford.com /Milosz.html (789 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Native Realm: A Search for Self Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Milosz reminisces with a slight tinge of nostalgia, painting pictures of an Eden-like world where man and surroundings were linked in a symbosis of mutual respect and awe.
		Milosz's homeland was a ethnically heterogenous one where Lithuanian, Pole, Byelorussian and Jew lived in an amicable tension, each bringing precious ingredients to their common feast.
		Czeslaw Milosz has finally reached home, to that pantheon filled with those rare few who have succeeded in over-coming self, sect, and narrow nationhood to be worthy of the title, 'European.' Montaigne and Goethe, welcome home your brother to his rightful native realm.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520044746?v=glance (1722 words)

	Czeslaw Milosz
		Czeslaw Milosz was a legend for several generations, including my own.
		Milosz was shaped by a then truly multi-cultural Poland, and more specifically by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, itself a land of diverse nations, cultures, languages, and religions.
		When Milosz was honored in 1980 with the Nobel Prize, we could proudly claim to have been his only publisher in the country.
	www.newschool.edu /tcds/Milosz.html (1122 words)

	Czeslaw Milosz
		Milosz's poetry and essays are a mixture of autobiographical confessions dealing with the effects of exile, religious or metaphysical fragments, historical and literary analyses.
		Czeslaw Milosz was born in Szetejnie, a rural town in Lithuania, then under the domination of the Russian czarist government.
		Milosz moved in 1960 to the United States, becoming professor of Slavic languages and literature at University of California at Berkeley (1960-78).
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /milosz.htm (1266 words)

	Dana Gioia Online - Czeslaw Milosz
		Milosz not only seems a major literary figure, he is also a profoundly European one.
		Milosz became the bard of history and deconstructionist of totalitarianism–not only in verse but in such prose classics as The Captive Mind (1953), an incisive study of the Communist mentality.
		Milosz's accounts of these brilliant idealists trapped by the tragedies or absurdities of modern history make chilling but compelling reading.
	www.danagioia.net /essays/emilosz.htm (545 words)

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