Poetry
Czeslaw Milosz (1985-1986)
Nov 07, 1985
鈥淭he Artist and Human Dignity鈥 Czeslaw Milosz was a Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet. He was born in Lithuania in 1911, and lived in both Nazi and Stalinist Poland. During the Second World War, he wrote and edited resistance publications. After the war, he moved first to [...]
Pierre Emmanuel (1960-1961)
Jan 30, 1961
鈥淎 Creative Way to Freedom鈥 Pierre Emmanuel was a French poet, critic, and journalist. Pierre Emmanuel name was a pseudonym and his real name was No毛l Mathieu. He was a professor of mathematics until 1943, when he joined the French resistance movement to the Nazi occupation [...]
C. Day Lewis (1953-1954)
Jan 30, 1954
鈥淣otable Images of Virtue鈥 Cecil Day Lewis was professor of poetry at the University of Oxford, a position he held from 1951 to 1956. He authored several studies of poetry as well as two books of poems including Country Comets (1928) and Overtures to Death (1938). He also [...]