Rescue

Collecting two of his most celebrated works – <i>Rescue</i>, written in Warsaw in the shadow of Nazi occupation, and <i>A Treatise on Poetry</i> – a momentous history of Poland, told in four cantos – here lie the sharpest fruits of one of the greatest poets of the 20^th century: the Nobel Laureate who narrates the rise and fall of nations, who ‘voices man’s exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts’.