Still Life with a Bridle: Essays and Apokryphas

ZBIGNIEW HERBERT

History

Vintage

Ten lyrical and passionate essays on the culture, art, and history of Western Europe written from the perspective of the post-Stalinist thaw of the 1960s.

Barbarian in the Garden (English and Polish Edition)

Europe

Harvest Books

In Still Life with a Bridle, poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert takes an intriguing look at the cultural, artisitic, and aesthetic legacy of 17th-century Holland. These sixteen essays reveal Hervert's discriminating artistic eye and poetic sensibility, one that revels in irony, humor, and a satirist's appreciation of the absurd. An inveterate museum-goer, he focuses on the art of the Dutch masters, using it as a stepping-off point for a thoroughly individual and entertaining examination of the foibles, genius, and character of the Dutch people as a whole. The result is an unorthodox and revealing glimpse into the past that gives us a keener understanding not only of a distant people, but of ourselves as well.

Still Life With A Bridle

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Harpercollins

This is the long-awaited translation of the volume Pan Cogito (Warsaw, 1974), now published in English translation as a full sequence of 40 poems for the first time. Writing of earlier volumes, the New Yorker said that `Herbert is one of the finest and most original writers of this century...a stubbornly idiosyncratic poet of isolation, disinheritance, and grief.' Mr Cogito acts as the award-winning poet's alibi, alias, persona, or as Seamus Heaney has said, `as a representative of the most courageous, well-disposed and unremittingly intelligent members of the species. This book is intended for admirers of Zbigniew Herbert; readers of poetry; libraries; universities.

Mr. Cogito (Modern European Poetry)

The Ecco Press

Presents retellings of classic Greek and Roman myths emphasizing the narrative and exploring human behavior

The King of the Ants

History & Criticism

Still Life with a Bridle

Arts & Photography

Notting Hill Editions

The long-awaited first Polish-English selection of Zbigniew Herbert's poems translated by John and Bogdana Carpenter, Czeslaw Milosz and Peter Dale Scott.

Selected Poems / Poezje wybrane

Wydawnictwo Literackie

89 wierszy (Biblioteka Poetycka Wydawnictwa a5)

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