"Struggle against Verse": Musical Contexts of Czesław Miłosz's Poetry—The Case of "Rays of Dazzling Light" and Its Musical Adaptations.

The guiding theme of this article is to show selected aspects of the relationship between music and poetry present in the works of Czesław Miłosz, one of the most important poets of the twentieth century and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980. My considerations will focus on two main is...

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Publicado en:Polish Review Vol. 70; no. 3; pp. 118 - 138
Autores principales: Bergiel, Anna, Hutchens, Jack J. B., Szatanik, Zuzanna
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