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During his first years in exile Czesław Miłosz, the author best known for his book The Captive Mind at the time, did not only play the role of a political writer, the role he repudi-ated, and did not only comment on the sole subject of communism or literature subjugated to it – he also wrote on many other, strictly internal, problems of literature. Most notable were included in his expert opinions on postwar Polish poetry, as he expressed them from both the standpoint of a keen observer and an important contributor. The present article is an analysis of Miłosz’s views on postwar Polish poetry, which he put forward in his numerous essays, ar-ticles, and book reviews published in the 1950s, the first years of his emigration.