Astonishment (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Cavanagh, Clare, “Poetry and Ideology: The Example of Wislawa Szymborska,” in Literary Imagination, Vol.17, No. 2, 1999, pp. 174 – 90.

  Cavanagh discusses how Szymborska, in poetry, explores the world from many points of view and resists ideological pronouncements.

• Lukowski, Jerzy, and Herbert Zawadzki, A Concise History of Poland, Cambridge University Press, 2001.

  Lukowski and Zawadzki present a short history that describes how Polish society developed under foreign rule in the nineteenth century and how it was altered by and responded to forty-five years of communism.

• Milosz, Czeslaw, The History of Polish Literature, University of California Press, 1984.

  Milosz’s book is the standard text of Polish literary history in English, covering the highlights of Polish writing from its beginnings to the 1980s.

• Rosslyn, Felicity, “Miraculously Normal: Wislawa Szymborska,” in PN Review, May/June 1994, pp. 14 – 18.

  This article considers what issues of importance Szymborska might be exploring in her elegant, simple verse and finds that the poet can create beautiful poetry out of the most mundane subjects.