Joseph Brodsky (1940 - 1996)

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BRODSKY, Joseph (1940-96), Russian-born poet and Nobel laureate, born in Saint Petersburg (then known as Leningrad). Deeply influenced by Russian and English literature, he began writing poetry in his late teens and became a protégé of Anna Akhmatova. He was denounced in the Soviet press in 1963. Arrested and tried as a "parasite" by the Soviet government in 1964, he was sentenced to five years in a labor camp but was released after less than two years because of international protests. Expel.. Continue..

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I Sit By The Window

A Polar Explorer

Elegy

Belfast Tune

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	A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

- Joseph Brodsky

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