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Wiersze ostatnie

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Wiersze ostatnie (Last poems) is a poetry collection by Czesław Miłosz. It was first published posthumously in 2006, two years after the poet's death. Polish literary scholar, Stanisław Stabro [pl], noted that the volume represents belongs in a collection of "late verse of the great masters" and "brings together texts that highlight the author’s spiritual, artistic and biographical experience".[1] Małgorzata Gajak-Toczek noted that the collection marks the culmination of many themes and motives that Miłosz has tackled throughout his life.[2]

Another Polish scholar, Marek Bernacki [pl], noted that the poem O zbawieniu (On salvation) contained with in "has a form of poetic minitreaty" and "can be regarded as the masterpiece of a lyric of vanitas".[3]

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  1. ^ Bryndza-Stabro, Stanisław (2012). ""U kresu drogi" : Czesław Miłosz "Wiersze ostatnie"". Ruch Literacki. 53 (4-5 (313-314)). doi:10.2478/v10273-012-0033-z. ISSN 0035-9602.
  2. ^ Gajak-Toczek, Małgorzata (2013). ""Wiersze ostatnie" Czesława Miłosza liryczną pieśnią o ludzkich sposobach doświadczania świata". Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia ad Didacticam Litterarum Polonarum et Linguae Polonae Pertinentia (in Polish). 4 (140): 224–245. ISSN 2450-5013.
  3. ^ Bernacki, Marek (2011). "O zbawieniu (z Wierszy ostatnich Czesława Miłosza)". Postscriptum Polonistyczne (1(7)): 257–273. ISSN 1898-1593.