Cyprian Kamil Norwid: Selected Poems

by Norwid, Cyprian

• ISBN13: 9780856463693
• ISBN10: 0856463698
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-15
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

Cyprian Norwid, born in 1821 near Warsaw, is one of the most inventive and idiosyncratic figures in Polish literature. His unique poetry is now recognized as among Poland's finest. In these -translations-winner of a Recommended Translation award by the UK's Poetry Book Society-Adam Czerniawski offers a selection of poems from the full range of Norwid's output, making an ideal introduction to this most intriguing of writers.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION by Bogdan Czaykowski	7	(14)
TRANSLATOR'S NOTE	21	(4)
Early Poems (1847-1861)
Reality	25	(5)
My Song	30	(2)
Beauty	32	(1)
In an Album	33	(1)
Their Strength	34	(1)
A Funeral Rhapsody in Memory of General Bern	35	(2)
On Board the Margaret Evans Sailing This Day to New York	37	(1)
[Such depths]	38	(1)
To Emir Abd el Kader in Damascus	39	(1)
Yesterday-and-I	40	(1)
My Country	41	(2)
Marionettes	43	(2)
Memento	45	(2)
[Give me a blue ribbon...]	47	(4)
From Black Flowers (1856)
Chopin	51	(6)
From Vade-mecum (1865)
Generalities	57	(1)
II The Past	58	(1)
VI In Verona	59	(1)
IX Obscurity	60	(1)
IV Mercy	61	(1)
XV The Sphinx	62	(1)
XVI Narcissus	63	(1)
XXIII Meanwhile	64	(1)
XXVI Why Not in Chorus?	65	(1)
XXVII Mysticism	66	(1)
XXX Fate	67	(1)
LIII Riddle	68	(1)
LIV As when...	69	(1)
LV The Small Circle	70	(1)
LVI Feelings	71	(1)
LXI Gods and Man	72	(1)
LXII Fervour	73	(1)
LXX The Mature Laurel	74	(1)
LXXXV To a Deceased...	75	(1)
XCIII The Source	76	(2)
XCV Nerves	78	(2)
XCVI The Last Despotism	80	(1)
XCVII Finis	81	(4)
Late Poems (1868-1881)
[Tell her - what?]	85	(1)
To Madame M. Going to Buy a Plate	86	(1)
Lapidaria	87	(2)
Undressed (A Ballad)	89	(2)
To Bronislaw Z.	91	(4)
NOTES	95