Poeta, który „znalazł się w Nigdzie”. Poemat Orfeusz i Eurydyka Czesława Miłosza
A Poet Who “Found Himself in Nowhere”. A Poem Orfeusz i Eurydyka (Orpheus and Eurydice) by Czesław Miłosz

Summary/Abstract: The essay examines the references of Orpheus and Eurydice by Czesław Miłosz toearlier literary incarnations of myth of Orpheus (from Virgil and Ovid to Rilke). It indicatesthe internal context of a memorial poem, which are not only senilia of the poet, but alsoreflections on suffering, death, responsibility of the artist for words and rebellion of poetryagainst nothingness, dispersed in many earlier works starting from the 1930s.

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