Volume 45, Number 16 · October 22, 1998
On Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998)
By Adam Michnik
He marked his epoch. He was a powerful essayist, an author of remarkable plays, and a poet of genius. He created his own language, a language of humble heroism, of self-ironic courage, and of romanticism—the romanticism of a soul that cherishes the classical canon of beauty, the European way of being Polish.
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