Miłosz, Eliot, and the Generative Canon - Literature, the Past, and the Future
Miłosz, Eliot, and the Generative Canon - Literature, the Past, and the Future

Summary/Abstract: In his lecture accepting the Nobel Prize in1980, Czesław Miłosz acknowledged his debt to authors preceding him like William Blake,and also his duty to maintain their tradition by rescuing it from what was now dated:Those who are alive receive a mandate from those who are silent forever. They can fulfill their duties only by trying to reconstruct precisely things as they were and by wresting the past from fictions and legends.'In acknowledging a poet’s obligation to what we now commonly call the literary canon, Miłoszwas following in the footsteps of T. S. Eliot.

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