“In a just world Mr. Herbert would have received the Nobel Prize long ago.” — Stephen Dobyns, The New York Times Book Review
“Zbigniew Herbert is a poet for this place; above all, for this time.” — Joseph Brodsky
The Collected Prose
1948-1998
Description
“One of the finest and most original writers…and one of the greatest Polish writers of [the 20th] century. [Herbert] is a figure comparable to, say, T. S. Eliot or W. H. Auden.”
—Edward Hirsch, The New Yorker
Polish essayist, poet, and spiritual leader of his nation’s anti-Communist movement, the late Zbigniew Herbert is a literary giant whose writings are revered throughout Europe and the world. A companion volume to the author’s Collected Poems (Ecco 2007), Collected Prose is the only English language edition of the award-winning writer’s prose works collected in a single, beautiful, accessible volume—including in their entirety his renowned Labyrinth on the Sea, Still Life with a Bridle, King of the Ants, and Barbarian in the Garden.
