''Król Popiel i inne wiersze'' (''King Popiel and Other Poems'') is a poetry collection by Polish poet

Czesław Miłosz Czesław Miłosz (, also , ; 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, ...

. It was first published in 1962 in

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by Polish Literary Institute. There were underground editions of the book in

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, also before 1989. An entry in the ''Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century'' notes that in the poems collected in this tome, "Milosz considered metaphysical questions, such as original sin, resurrection, and the relation of the particular to the universal", while placing "less emphasis on political concerns".

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1962 poetry books Polish poetry collections Poetry by Czesław Miłosz {{poem-stub