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Zbigniew Herbert's 'Mr. Cogito on Virtue'

October 9, 2019 Liam Guilar

Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998)

Mr. Cogito again. This time contemplating Virtue and her failure to seduce ‘real men’.

This is taken from ‘The Collected Poems’ (Atlantic books 2008) a magnificent and dangerous book.

Tags Zbigniew herbert, Twentieth century, Polish, Poetry in Translation, Mr Cogito
← W.B.Yeats' 'The Wandering of Aengus'Ivor Gurney's 'First Time In'. →

The Fabled Third, the sequel to A Man of Heart and the final part of A Presentment of Englishry, is now available direct from the publisher Shearsman Uk and usual online sources. Signed copies of all three books are available from the shop on this site.

Review of A Presentment of Englishry here: http://longpoemmagazine.org.uk/reviews/a-presentment-of-englishry/

Reviews of A Man of Heart here: Heart of the Island nation and here https://dura-dundee.org.uk/2024/04/01/a-man-of-heart/