Volume 41, Number 13 · July 14, 1994
His Mystic Way
By P.N. Furbank
Amorous Initiation: A Novel of Sacred and Profane Love, An Excerpt from the Memoirs of the Chevalier Waldemar de L——
by O.V. de L. Milosz, translated by Belle N. Burke
Inner Traditions, 184 pp., $22.95
When Max Beerbohm's failed poet Enoch Soames, by virtue of a pact with the Devil, was permitted to inspect the British Museum catalog a hundred years in the future, he found to his utter discouragement that under the name 'Soames, Enoch' nothing at all had been added to the three cherished slips for his own 'slim volumes.' It would have been otherwise with Oskar Wladyslaw Milosz (1877-1939), though a failed poet in his own lifetime too; he would have found quite a respectable column of posthumous additions, including various critical studies, a series of Cahiers by the 'Friends of Milosz,' a handsome Collected Works in ten volumes, and a valuable volume of translations (The Noble Traveller) introduced by his distant cousin the poet Czeslaw Milosz.
Review, 3007 words
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