Ocalenie

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{{Infobox poem

| name = Ocalenie

| author = Czesław Miłosz

| publication_date = {{start year and age|1945}}

| image = Ocalenie.jpg

| caption = First edition

| publisher = Czytelnik Publishing House

| country = Poland

| language = Polish

}}

Ocalenie ("Rescue") is a poetry collection by Czesław Miłosz. It was first published in 1945. Many of the poems collected were written in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation.{{cite web

| last = Bainbridge

| first = Charles

| title = Witness to the World (review)

| url = https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/sep/02/featuresreviews.guardianreview21

| work = The Guardian

| accessdate = 30 July 2018

| date = 2 September 2006

}}{{cite thesis

| last = Mazurska

| first = Joanna

| date = August 2013

| title = Making Sense of Czeslaw Milosz: A Poet's Formative Dialogue with his Transnational Audiences

| type = PhD thesis

| publisher = Vanderbilt University

| url = https://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-07192013-111040/unrestricted/Mazurska.pdf

| access-date = 31 July 2018

| pages = 59–64

}}{{cite news

| last1 = Hirsch

| first1 = Edward

| title = Czeslaw Milosz’s Invincible Reason

| url = https://newrepublic.com/article/143005/czeslaw-milosz-invincible-reason-author-captive-mind-political-thinker-didnt-like-politics

| accessdate = 31 July 2018

| work = New Republic

| date = 30 June 2017

}}

Partial contents

  • "World: Naïve Poems"—a sequence of pastoral poems
  • "By the Peonies"
  • "Song on the End of the World"
  • "Campo dei Fiori"—"a civic-minded poem about people’s indifference to the deaths of others"
  • "The Voices of Poor People"—cycle
  • "A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto"
  • "Dedication"

References