Kazimierz Wierzyński

Michael Lavery (University of California, Los Angeles)

Ed. by Roman Koropeckyj, University of California, Los Angeles
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.8.3: Polish Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Ewa M. Thompson (Rice University)

Dates

Born 27 Aug 1894
Died 13 Feb 1969
Activity 1913-1969

Places

Born in Poland
Active in Poland; Italy; United Kingdom; United States

Activities

Primary

Poet

Other

Prose writer

Resources

Wierzyński's Works

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Kazimierz Wierzyński was a Polish writer whose long career resists easy classification. Starting out as a bright poetic star in newly-resurrected Poland, Wierzyński grappled with the demands of his national poetic tradition, emerging from the tragedy of war as the great Polish poet of émigré despair in the twentieth century. Although overshadowed by more versatile and expansive poets such as his fellow émigré Czesław Miłosz, Wierzyński achieved the sophisticated balance of the modern lyric poem, transforming the alienation of exile into a probing search for meaning through art in an indifferent world.

Wierzyński was born on August 27, 1894, in Drohobycz, a city in western Ukraine. His father, a railroad stationmaster, descended from German settlers who colonized Galicia under the

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Citation: Lavery, Michael. "Kazimierz Wierzyński". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 09 January 2018 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13812, accessed 24 November 2024.]