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Julia Hartwig - Poetry Readings: 'For you Europe' (71/100)

To listen to more of Julia Hartwig’s stories, go to the playlist:    • Julia Hartwig (Poet)   Julia Hartwig (1921-2017) was a Polish poet, essayist, translator and author of children's books. She studied at universities in Warsaw, Lublin and Kraków. Czesław Miłosz called her 'the grande dame of Polish poetry'. [Listener: Andrzej Wolski; date recorded: 2010] TRANSCRIPT: Here's one of the poems that often appears in foreign anthologies because it is about the Polish period of war, martial law. For you Europe we are a preserve of history with our old-fashioned ideals with our dusted-off treasures with the songs we sing Everything that is best we give away to be devoured by the dragon of violence and sheer force young boys beautiful girls the finest minds most promising talents offerings of flowers crosses words Lighthearted heirs of solemnity and promoters of hope we are inheritors of a native rhetoric that fits us perfectly – though only yesterday it seemed a bit too tight Taken from 'In Praise of the Unfinished: Selected Poems' (2008) translated, from the Polish, by John and Bogdana Carpenter.