A Jan Lechoń poem on this author’s death notes how “Your father in his sleepless exile calls / You in your country’s language.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this British author. The first epigraph to T. S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men” is “Mistah Kurtz—he dead,” a reference to this author’s Heart of Darkness.
ANSWER: Joseph Conrad [or Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; accept “On the death of Joseph Conrad”]
[10m] The line “Before us is ‘The Heart of Darkness’” ends this author’s long poem The Treatise on Morality. This editor of The Book of Luminous Things wrote a book that discusses four intellectuals with the aliases Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta.
ANSWER: Czesław Miłosz (The book is The Captive Mind.)
[10h] Conrad is called to “Come back from Kent ... from Westminster!” in a Marian Piechal poem titled for this place. Another poem titled for this place advises you to “keep [this place] always in your mind” and claims it “gave you the marvelous journey.”
ANSWER: Ithaca [or Ithaka] (The poem is “Ithaka” by Constantine Cavafy.)
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