Poetry
Czeslaw Milosz (1985-1986)
Nov 07, 1985
“The Artist and Human Dignity” Czeslaw Milosz was a Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet. He was born in Lithuania in 1911, and lived in both Nazi and Stalinist Poland. During the Second World War, he wrote and edited resistance publications. After the war, he moved first to [...]
Pierre Emmanuel (1960-1961)
Jan 30, 1961
“A Creative Way to Freedom” Pierre Emmanuel was a French poet, critic, and journalist. Pierre Emmanuel name was a pseudonym and his real name was Noël Mathieu. He was a professor of mathematics until 1943, when he joined the French resistance movement to the Nazi occupation [...]
C. Day Lewis (1953-1954)
Jan 30, 1954
“Notable Images of Virtue” Cecil Day Lewis was professor of poetry at the University of Oxford, a position he held from 1951 to 1956. He authored several studies of poetry as well as two books of poems including Country Comets (1928) and Overtures to Death (1938). He also [...]