 In addition to "The Captive Mind", he published two poetry collections ("Daylight" (1954) and "A Treatise on Poetry" (1957)), two novels ("The Seizure of Power" (1955) and "The Issa Valley" (1955)), and a memoir ("Native Realm" (1959)).All were published in Polish by an émigré press in Paris.Andrzej Franaszek has called "A Treatise on Poetry" Miłosz's magnum opus, while the scholar Helen Vendler compared it to "The Waste Land", a work "so powerful that it bursts the bounds in which it was written—the bounds of language, geography, epoch".