Czesław Miłosz: poeta XX wieku w przestrzeni publicznej
Czesław Miłosz, a 20th-century poet in the public space

Summary/Abstract: The article introduces a consideration of Czesław Miłosz’s poetry in cultural categories, which are (according to the author) better suited than literary categories to specify the poet’s position assumed against the changing status and functions of poetry in the 20th century. Hence, aesthetic views are formed by Miłosz’s protest against avant-garde modernism, on the one hand, and against traditionalism, on the other. Tackled are the views on social function of literature (poetry) – through his defence of the place, attributes and tasks of poetry in the public sphere. The specificity of contemporary experience of human temporality is described by Miłosz’s formula whereby contemporality is experienced as a post-past (considered in the context of the noted diagnoses of twentieth-century sociologists and cultural philosophers such as Giddens, Beck, or Habermas).

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