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  Herbert, Zbigniew - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Herbert, Zbigniew 1924-98, Polish poet, essayist, and playwright, b.
Herbert is known for pared-down, precise, and barely punctuated verse informed by a dispassionate, objective, and ironic tone.
The poet in the Besieged City: Heidegger and the poetry of Zbigniew Herbert.
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 Herbert, Zbigniew Criticism and Essays
Zbigniew Herbert was born on November 29, 1924, in Lwów, Poland, where his father was a bank director and economics professor.
When Herbert was only fourteen years old the tumult of World War II swept Poland into a series of power changes between the Soviet Union, under Stalin, and Hitler's Germany, a disillusioning, political juggling that lasted through the end of the war in the poet's twenieth year.
The theme of the last volume of Herbert's poems that was published during his lifetime is summarized in the title, Epilog burzy (Epilogue to the Storm; 1998) which refers to a well-known painting by Giorgione and to the turbulence of his own life.
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 Polish culture: Zbigniew Herbert
Herbert won many Polish and foreign literary awards, including the Koscielski Prize (1963), the Austrian Nikolaus Lenau Preis (1965), the Herder Prize (1973), and the Jerusalem Prize (1990).
Irony complicates the apparent simplicity and unambiguity of Herbert's verse.
Herbert's essays, on the other hand, seem to be mere "reports on journeys" to the places where European culture was born and flourished.
www.culture.pl /en/culture/artykuly/os_herbert_zbigniew   (665 words)

  
 Zbigniew Herbert at the Complete Review
Herbert's anti-hero Mr.Cogito, subject of many of his poems, is one of the more inspired characters in modern literature, an ideal vehicle for Herbert's talents.
Herbert's fascination with other subjects -- painting, for example, or other things Dutch -- served his poetry well, and also made for interesting subjects in his essays and short prose pieces.
Elegy for an elegist: Zbigniew Herbert at The Oak Ridger
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 Zbigniew Herbert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The publication of his Selected Poems in the United States and England made Herbert one of the most popular contemporary poets in the English-speaking world.
This semantic transparency is the characteristic of a sign consisting in this: that during the time when the sign is used, attention is directed towards the object denoted, and the sign itself does not hold the attention.
Audio discussion of Herbert's poems, and text of several of them
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zbigniew_Herbert   (844 words)

  
 Herbert Zbigniew - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Herbert Zbigniew - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Herbert, Zbigniew (1924–1998), Polish poet and essayist, whose work was avant-garde, ironic, and formally accomplished.
Herbert, Zbigniew (quotations): Supernatural, The: If after our death they want to transform us into…
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 Herbert
Click on photo for a discussion of Herbert's poetry
Herbert was born in 1924 in Lvov, which was then in eastern Poland but is currently in the Ukraine.
These poems, and others by Herbert, are found at http://redfrog.norconnect.no/~poems/poets/herbert.html
www.uvm.edu /~sgutman/Herbert.html   (450 words)

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