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Title:
Less than one : selected essays / Joseph Brodsky.
Author:
Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996.
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986.
Call Number:
PN1271 .B76 1986
Abstract:
Includes essays on Russian writers, Western poets, politics, and the author's native city, Leningrad.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780374520557
Physical Description:
501 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Less than one -- The keening muse -- Pendulum's song -- A guide to a renamed city -- In the shadow of Dante -- On Tyranny -- The child of civilization -- Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899-1980): an obituary -- The power of the elements -- The sound of the tide -- A poet and prose -- Footnote to a poem -- Catastrophes in the air -- On "September 1, 1939" by W.H. Auden -- To please a shadow -- A commencement address -- Flight from Byzantium -- In a room and a half.
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