Joseph Brodsky: conversations
by Haven, Cynthia L., Brodsky, Joseph
fromLiterary conversations series
Joseph Brodsky: conversations
by Haven, Cynthia L., Brodsky, Joseph
fromLiterary conversations series
Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) is unquestionably the greatest poet to emerge from postwar Russia and one of the great minds of the last century. After his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1972, Brodsky transformed himself from a stunned and unprepared émigré into, as he himself te…
This study analyses the poetry which Sutzkever wrote between 1935 and 1954, emphasising the themes of the poetic word and the poet's role. During this formative period Sutzkever established his complex of images, and laid the foundation for the often hermetic later poetry. The e…
Before the first Stone (1891-1913) -- Between Stone (1913) and Tristia (1922) -- Between Tristia (1922) and Poems (1928) -- Before the arrest (1928-1934) -- Final years (1934-1938).