Wiersze ostatnie

Wiersze ostatnie (Last poems) is a poetry collection by Czesław Miłosz. It was first published posthumously in 2006, two years after the poet's death. Polish literary scholar, Stanisław Stabro [pl], noted that the volume represents belongs in a collection of "late verse of the great masters" and "brings together texts that highlight the author’s spiritual, artistic and biographical experience".^[1] Małgorzata Gajak-Toczek noted that the collection marks the culmination of many themes and motives that Miłosz has tackled throughout his life.^[2]

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Another Polish scholar, Marek Bernacki [pl], noted that the poem O zbawieniu (On salvation) contained with in "has a form of poetic minitreaty" and "can be regarded as the masterpiece of a lyric of vanitas".^[3]