Ecstatic Pessimist: Czeslaw Milosz, Poet of Catastrophe and Hope

by Peter Dale Scott

Book Overview

Ecstatic Pessimist addresses several topics and strands in the literary production and life of Czeslaw Milosz, the Nobel Prize Polish-language poet and American citizen. It is also a personal history of the relations between Milosz and the author of the book, himself a poet who worked on translations with the Polish poet in 1960s.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1538172437
• ISBN13: 9781538172438
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"