Czeslaw Milosz

Category
LITERATURE - MAJOR WORKS

Language
POLISH

In 1931, he visited Paris, where he first met his distant cousin, Oscar Milosz, a French-language poet of Lithuanian descent who had become a Swedenborgian. Oscar became a mentor and inspiration.[26] Returning to Wilno, Mi?osz's early awareness of class difference and sympathy for those less fortunate than himself inspired his defense of Jewish students at the university who were being harassed by an anti-Semitic mob. Stepping between the mob and the Jewish students, Mi?osz fended off attacks. One student was killed when a rock was thrown at his head.[27] <

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