Still Life With a Bridle: Essays and Apocryphas

Carpenter, Bogdana,Carpenter, John,Herbert, Zbigniew

ISBN 10: 0880013206 / ISBN 13: 9780880013208

Published by Ecco Pr, 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Still Life With a Bridle: Essays and Apocryphas
• Publisher: Ecco Pr
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0880013206
• ISBN 13: 9780880013208
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In Still Life with a Bridle, poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert takes an intriguing look at the cultural, artisitic, and aesthetic legacy of 17th-century Holland. These sixteen essays reveal Herbert's discriminating artistic eye and poetic sensibility, one that revels in irony, humor, and a satirist's appreciation of the absurd. An inveterate museum-goer, he focuses on the art of the Dutch masters, using it as a stepping-off point for a thoroughly individual and entertaining examination of the foibles, genius, and character of the Dutch people as a whole. The result is an unorthodox and revealing glimpse into the past that gives us a keener understanding not only of a distant people, but of ourselves as well.

About the Author

Zbigniew Herbert was born in Lwów, Poland, in 1924. Herbert studied law, economics, and philosophy at the universities of Krakow, Torun, and Warsaw. His books include Selected Poems, Mr Cogito, Report from the Besieged City and Other Poems, Barbarian in the Garden, Still Life with a Bridle, The King of the Ants, and Reconstruction of the Poet.