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Reviewed on June 1, 1998
Nobel prize-winning poet Seifert, who died in 1986 at the age of 85, was and remains as popular among the Czech people as movie stars are among Americans. Though he spoke out throughout his lifetime against the oppression of Nazi and later Soviet rule in Czechoslovakia, he was protected from retaliation in part by the people's well-deserved love for him. Seifert is a straightforward, direct, accessible poet who speaks ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More