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| Name: |
Joseph Brodsky | | Variant Name: |
Iosif Alexandrovic Brodsky | | Birth Date: |
May 24, 1940 | | Death Date: |
January 28, 1996 | | Place of Birth: |
Leningrad, Russia | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
poet |
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 Biography of Iosif Alexandrovich Brodsky
13,956 words, approx. 47 pages
 Joseph Brodsky came of age in the Soviet Union during the "Thaw" period (late 1950s to early 1960s), and he has been widely recognized as the most gifted Russian poet of his generation. He is the direct successor to an illustrious quartet of modernist... summary from source:
 Biography of Joseph Brodsky
1,561 words, approx. 5 pages
Nobel Prize winner and fifth U.S. poet laureate, Russian-born Joseph Brodsky (born Iosif Alexandrovich Brodsky; 1940-1996) was imprisoned for his poetry in the former Soviet Union but was greatly honored in the West. Joseph (Iosif Alexandrovich)... 
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 Joseph Brodsky Quotes
255 words, approx. 1 pages
 Iosip Aleksandrovich Brodsky , (Russian:Ио́сиф Алекса́ндрович Бро́дский, better known as Joseph Brodsky ) ( 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996 ), was a Russian-American poet, winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature, and...
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 Joseph Brodsky Information
2,660 words, approx. 9 pages
Joseph Brodsky (May 24, 1940 – January 28, 1996), born Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Russian: Ио́сиф Алекса́ндрович Бро́дский) was a Russian poet and essayist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1987) and was chosen...
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 The Independent - London Obituary: Joseph Brodsky
01/30/1996: 1,184 words, approx. 4 pages In 1987 Joseph Brodsky, then 47, became the youngest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. It had been widely expected, honouring a poet who, born in one culture, had become a master of another. Brodsky was an only child, born... summary from source:
The Washington Post In Venice, With Joseph Brodsky
12/12/1987: 972 words, approx. 3 pages More than half of the writers, academics, politicos and their hangers-on who packed a movie theater to hear an obscure Russian e'migre' by the name of Joseph Brodsky read his poems did not know Russian. The time was 1978, the place was Venice, and... summary from source:
 AP News Files reveal struggles of The New Leader
2/3/2007: 1,028 words, approx. 3 pagesGeorge Orwell, Arthur Miller and Bertrand Russell have been among its contributors. Influential texts have included Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's then-secret denunciation of Stalin and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter From a Birmingham Jail."The New Leader, founded in 1924, is a chronically underfunded... summary from source:
AP News Files show magazine's struggle
2/3/2007: 1,028 words, approx. 3 pagesGeorge Orwell, Arthur Miller and Bertrand Russell have been among its contributors. Influential texts have included Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's then-secret denunciation of Stalin and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter From a Birmingham Jail."The New Leader, founded in 1924, is a chronically underfunded...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by David Patterson
7,020 words, approx. 23 pages
In the following essay, Patterson examines the theme of exile in Brodsky's works, stating that "Brodsky regards his exile not as a political condition but as an existential condition, one that is characteristic of his condition as a human being."
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Critical Essay by Tony Whedon
5,175 words, approx. 17 pages
In the essay below, Whedon contrasts Brodsky's poetry and essays, finding his verse obscure and emotionally distant in comparison to his essays, in which he finds "a sensitivity and introspection, a humaneness."
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Critical Review by J. M. Coetzee
4,505 words, approx. 15 pages
Coeizee is a South African writer. In the mixed review of the essay collection On Grief and Reason below, he examines Brodsky's views on poetry and discusses the poet's relationship to Russian literature.
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