Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz Milosz | |
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Oskaras Milašius | |
 Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz Milosz | |
| Born | Oskaras Milašius 28 May 1877 or 15 May 1877 Čareja, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 2 March 1939 (aged 61) Fontainebleau, France |
| Nationality | Lithuanian / French |
| Education | École des langues orientales |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, playwright, diplomat |
Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz Milosz (Lithuanian: Oskaras Milašius; Polish: Oskar Władysław Miłosz) (28 May 1877 or 15 May 1877[1] – 2 March 1939) was a French language[2][3] poet, playwright, novelist, essayist and representative of Lithuania at the League of Nations.[3] His literary career began at the end of the nineteenth century during la Belle Époque and reached its high point in the mid-1920s with the books Ars Magna and Les Arcanes, in which he developed a highly personal and dense Christian cosmogony comparable to that of Dante in The Divine Comedy and John Milton in Paradise Lost. A solitary and unique twentieth-century metaphysician, his poems are visionary and often tormented.[4] He was a distant cousin of Polish writer Czesław Miłosz, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1980.
- ^ "Journal officiel de la République française. Lois et décrets". Gallica. 1931-05-24. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
- ^ A century's witness. Retrieved 2009-12-23
- ^ a b Czesław Miłosz, Cynthia L. Haven. Czesław Miłosz. 2006p.203
- ^ "Scottish Arts Council - Books of Silence". Retrieved 2008-02-13.