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Joseph Brodsky

Born

in Leningrad, USSR

May 24, 1940

Died

January 28, 1996

Genre

Poetry

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Joseph Brodsky (Russian: Иосиф Бродский] was a Russian-American 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 several universities, including Yale, Columbia, and Mount Holyoke. Brodsky was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity." A journalist asked him: "You are an American citizen who is receiving the Prize for Russian-language poetry. Who are you, an American or a Russian?" Brodsky replied: "I'm Jewish; a Russian poet, an English essayist – and, of course, an American ci ...more

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Average rating: 4.12 · 14,570 ratings · 1,614 reviews · 314 distinct works • Similar authors

	Watermark 4.06 avg rating — 4,003 ratings — published 1989 — 74 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Less Than One: Selected Essays 4.35 avg rating — 1,337 ratings — published 1986 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Collected Poems in English 4.38 avg rating — 1,074 ratings — published 2000 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Part of Speech by Joseph Brodsky, Daniel Weissbert (Translator), Иосиф Бродский 4.44 avg rating — 652 ratings — published 1977 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Grief and Reason: Essays 4.23 avg rating — 669 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Urania: Poems 4.21 avg rating — 363 ratings — published 1987 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Полторы комнаты by Joseph Brodsky, Max Nemtsov (Goodreads Author) (Translator), Boris Smelov (Illustrator) 4.66 avg rating — 299 ratings — published 1986 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Конец прекрасной эпохи by Joseph Brodsky, Иосиф Бродский 4.52 avg rating — 266 ratings — published 1977 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nativity Poems: Bilingual Edition by Joseph Brodsky, Mikhail Lemkhin 4.11 avg rating — 265 ratings — published 1999 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Иосиф Бродский. Малое собрание сочинений by Joseph Brodsky, Иосиф Бродский, Василий Голышев (переводчик) 4.65 avg rating — 199 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

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“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
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“For darkness restores what light cannot repair.”
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