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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1984
Jaroslav Seifert

Poetry

 

Four Poems by Jaroslav Seifert

Autobiography

An Umbrella from Piccadilly

Fragment of a Letter

To Be a Poet

 

All poems from The Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert
Translated from the Czech by Ewald Osers
Edited by George Gibian
Copyright © 1998 by Ewald Osers and George Gibian
Used by permission of Catbird Press
All rights reserved

Poem selected by Carola Hermelin, assistant head librarian,
Nobel Library of the Swedish Academy.

 

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