Kroniki

Kroniki (lit. The Chronicles) is a poetry collection by Czesław Miłosz. It was first published in 1987 by the Instytut Literacki (Literary Institute) in Paris.

The collection encompasses poems written between 1985 and 1987, including On Parting with My Wife, Janina and Six Lectures in Verse. In a 1994 interview, Miłosz recalled that Pope John Paul II had specifically discussed Six Lectures in Verse with him, telling the poet he made "one step forward, one step back" in approaching religious themes; Miłosz replied that he did not know how else it was possible to write religious poetry in the twentieth century. Scholars have described Kroniki as part of an unusually productive period in Miłosz's career, marked by creative energy as he approached his eightieth birthday and the sixtieth anniversary of his literary debut.

References

  1. ↑ "Dzieła Czesława Miłosza, lista chronologicznie Works by Miłosz". Agnieszka Kosińska (in Polish). Retrieved 2026-07-03.
  2. 1 2 3 Fiut, Alexander (1992), "At the End of the Century", in Eile, Stanislaw; Phillips, Ursula (eds.), New Perspectives in Twentieth-Century Polish Literature: Flight from Martyrology, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 164–179, doi:10.1007/978-1-349-12331-5_11, ISBN 978-1-349-12331-5, retrieved 2026-07-03
  3. ↑ "Czeslaw Milosz, The Art of Poetry No. 70". Vol. Winter 1994, no. 133. 1994. ISSN 0031-2037. Retrieved 2026-07-03.