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Joseph Brodsky

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born
in Leningrad, Russian Federation
May 24, 1940

died
January 28, 1996

gender
male

genre
Poetry

influences
Anna Akhmatova


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Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Russian: Ио́сиф Алекса́ндрович Бро́дский, IPA: [ɪˈosʲɪf ˈbrot͡skʲɪj] was a Russian poet and essayist.

Born in Leningrad in 1940, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972, settling in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters. He taught thereafter at universities including those at Yale, Cambridge and Michigan.

Brodsky was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity". He was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 1991.


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4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 395 ratings — published 1992 — 12 editions
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Collected Poems in English
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 300 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
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Less Than One: Selected Essays
4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 275 ratings — published 1986 — 8 editions
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A Part of Speech
4.49 of 5 stars 4.49 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 1980 — 6 editions
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On Grief and Reason: Essays
4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions
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To Urania: Poems
4.38 of 5 stars 4.38 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 2000 — 8 editions
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So Forth: Poems
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions
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Fondamenta degli incurabili
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4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions
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Конец прекрасной эпохи
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4.72 of 5 stars 4.72 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1977 — 2 editions
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Nativity Poems
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Quotes by Joseph Brodsky

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
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“For darkness restores what light cannot repair.”
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“Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse”
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