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Joseph Brodsky - Wikipedia. Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky [note 1] ( / ˈbrɒdski /; Russian: Иосиф Александрович Бродский [ɪˈosʲɪf ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ ˈbrotskʲɪj] ⓘ; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist.
Joseph Brodsky. 1940–1996. Poet, translator, essayist, and playwright Iosif Alexandrovich Brodsky was reviled and persecuted by officials in his native Soviet Union while the Western literary establishment lauded him as one of the finest poets working in the Russian language.
Joseph Brodsky was a Russian-American poet, essayist, and Nobel laureate. He is considered one of the most important poets of the late 20th century. His work continues to be studied and admired for its formal mastery, intellectual rigor, and unflinching exploration of exile, memory, and the human condition.
On June 4, 1972, Joseph Brodsky became an involuntary exile from his native country. After brief stays in Vienna and London, he came to the United States. He has been Poet-in-Residence and Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan, Queens College, Smith College, Columbia University, and Cambridge University in England.
May 20, 2024 · Joseph Brodsky was a Russian-born American poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987 for his important lyric and elegiac poems. Brodsky left school at age 15 and thereafter began to write poetry while working at a wide variety of jobs.
Jan 28, 1996 · Joseph Brodsky began writing poetry at the age of 18. His poetry was inspired by Russian predecessors such as Alexander Pushkin and Boris Pasternak, but also by British poets such as John Donne and W.H. Auden. His forced exile affected Brodsky’s writing, both linguistic and thematically.
"Joseph Brodsky, a Russian-American poet, was born in St. Petersburg (then called Leningrad). A disciple of Anna Akhmatova, he began writing poetry in 1955. He was first denounced by the state (for decadence and modernism, among other charges) in 1963 and was exiled by Soviet authorities in 1972.
Joseph Brodsky was born in Leningrad on May 24, 1940. He left school at the age of fifteen, taking jobs in a morgue, a mill, a ship’s boiler room, and a geological expedition. During this time, Brodsky taught himself English and Polish and began writing poetry.
Before his death in 1996 Nobel-Prize winning poet Joseph Brodsky was working to establish a Russian Academy in Rome. Continuing his vision, the Fund awards annual fellowships, selected by an independent jury, for unstructured, uninterrupted and substantial periods of work and study.
Joseph Brodsky was born in Leningrad (present-day St. Petersburg), Russia, in 1940. He published nine collections of English-language poetry, including Selected Poems (1973), So Forth (1996), and Collected Poems in English (2000).
