Investigative Pathways: Patterns and Stages in the Careers by Frederic Lawrence Holmes

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By Frederic Lawrence Holmes

This intimate portrayal of the friendship among icons of twentieth-century poetry, Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky, highlights the parallel lives of the poets as exiles dwelling in the US and Nobel Prize laureates in literature. To create this really unique paintings, Irena Grudzinska Gross attracts from poems, essays, letters, interviews, speeches, lectures, and her personal own thoughts as a confidant of either Milosz and Brodsky. the twin portrait of those poets and the elucidation in their attitudes towards faith, background, reminiscence, and language throw a brand new gentle at the upheavals of the twentieth-century. Gross additionally accommodates notes on either poets' relationships to different key literary figures, reminiscent of W. H. Auden, Susan Sontag, Seamus Heaney, Mark Strand, Robert Haas, and Derek Walcott.

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