Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996)

A selective list of online literary criticism on the Russian exile poet Joseph Brodsky, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars and articles published in peer-reviewed sources


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"Joseph Brodsky." An extended introduction to Brodsky, includes a list of his works and a secondary reading list, from the Poetry Foundation.

An introduction to Joseph Brodsky from the Academy of American Poets. Includes a list of other "poets of exile."

"Thirteen Ways of Looking at Joseph Brodsky." Commentary on Brodsky by a scholar and two well-known authors: William Wadsworth, Susan Sontag, and Derek Walcott.

Birkerts, Sven. "Interview: Joseph Brodsky." Paris Review 83 (Spring 1982).

Gessen, Keith. "The Gift: Joseph Brodsky and the fortunes of misfortune." The New Yorker 23 May 2011.

Sundaram, Chantal. "'The stone skin of the monument': Mayakovsky, Dissent and Popular Culture in the Soviet Union." Toronto Slavic Quarterly.


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