The Early Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert

By Jaroslav Seifert

Book Overview

Nobel Prize winner Jaroslav Seifert's poetry is strongly situated within the Czech literary tradition of Poetism, which evolved into a playful, light-hearted refuge from world history while maintaining an edge of social consciousness. Called "a living symbol of the continuity in modern Czech literature" by V?clav Havel, Seifert remains a towering figure in European poetry more than a decade after his death.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081011383X
• ISBN13: 9780810113831
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.8"