Milosz

American  

[mee-losh, mee-wawsh] / ˈmi lɒʃ, ˈmi wɔʃ /

noun

1. Czeslaw 1911–2004, U.S. poet and novelist, born in Poland: Nobel Prize 1980.

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Miłosz British  

/ ˈmiwoʃ, ˈmiːlɒʃ /

noun

1. Czeslaw (ˈtʃɛslɔː; ˈtʃɛswaf). 1911–2004, US poet and writer, born in Lithuania, writing in Polish; author of The Captive Mind (1953). Nobel prize for literature 1980

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Example Sentences

In an eloquent eulogy bookended by the poetry of Czeslaw Milosz and Langston Hughes, he exhorted Americans to “practice the politics of the preamble to the Constitution” as the “only way” to honor Lewis’ life.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2024

Milosz Krasinski was on a road trip through Europe this summer when he fell for this swindle: At a gas station, he found a makeshift gift shop selling vignettes at a reduced rate.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 28, 2023

Here’s one entry in its entirety, in lines Rilke or Havel or Milosz would envy:

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2023

It has published articles and literary works by Catholic and liberal intellectuals, including Nobel Prize-winning poets Wislawa Szymborska and Czeslaw Milosz.

From Washington Times • Jan. 5, 2021

Born in 1911 to an aristocratic Polish family in Lithuania, which was part of the Russian Empire at the time, Milosz was swept up in the maelstrom of the twentieth century from the beginning.

From The New Yorker • May 22, 2017