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„Czosnek w blocie i szafiry”. Termin „barok” a poezja angielska

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Ward J.

Pamiętnik Literacki

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2011

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vol. 102

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issue 4

81-97

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The quotation in the title of this article, from T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, displays the characteristic of sharp contrast associated with the concept of the baroque. It is a characteristic to be found in the work of many English poets, flourishing particularly in the seventeenth century and continuing to this day. Yet British scholars are generally reluctant to make use of the term “baroque” unless in relation to poets with Catholic connections, such as Robert Southwell or Richard Crashaw. The article inquires into the reasons for this reluctance and asks what benefits might be gained from overcoming it. A revaluation of the neglected term “baroque” could help to reveal not only the European connections of English poetry since the Reformation but also its link with the tradition of the English Middle Ages.

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Albowiem nie mamy tu miasta trwającego, ale przyszłego szukamy. Przyjaciele złączeni wygnaniem: o korespondencji Czesława Miłosza z Thomasem Mertonem

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Ward J.

Przekładaniec. Półrocznik Katedry UNESCO do Badań nad Przekładem i Komunikacja Miedzykulturowa UJ

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2011

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issue 25

177-188

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This article considers the decade-long correspondence of Czesław Miłosz and Thomas Merton, published first in a Polish translation in 1991, and only later, in 1997, in the original English. Though Merton offered to write in French, a language that Miłosz at the time knew much better than English, Miłosz chose to use the latter. The article concentrates on Miłosz’s side of the correspondence, comparing the impression of struggle and incomplete command that his letters evoke in the original version with the linguistic elegance and control implied by the Polish translation. Miłosz’s slightly foreign English seems a reflection of the theme implied by the English title of the correspondence, Striving Towards Being. The article also suggests that writing in English, despite the constraints that it imposed, enabled the Polish poet to discover a childlike freedom of expression and to meet his “correspondent”, a fellow-sufferer from spiritual homelessness, in sympathetic understanding, though the external experience of the two was very different. Each partner, searching for someone who “spoke the same language”, found his interlocutor, paradoxically, in a person who, in the literal sense, did not.

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Angielski poeta o „wielkim polskim luminarzu”. Geoffrey Hill i „Ciemne świecidło” Aleksandra Wata

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Ward J.

Ruch Literacki

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2011

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„Czosnek w blocie i szafiry”. Termin „barok” a poezja angielska

Albowiem nie mamy tu miasta trwającego, ale przyszłego szukamy. Przyjaciele złączeni wygnaniem: o korespondencji Czesława Miłosza z Thomasem Mertonem

Angielski poeta o „wielkim polskim luminarzu”. Geoffrey Hill i „Ciemne świecidło” Aleksandra Wata