To Urania (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Joseph Brodsky
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Mythological literature, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Intellectuals, Mythology or myths, Nature, England or English people, Upper classes, Food, Home, Captivity, Sixteenth century, Loneliness, Birds, Animals, Soviet Union or Soviets, Houses, mansions, or manors, Joy or sorrow, Nobility, Gardens or gardening
When Joseph Brodsky received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987, the award acknowledged his achievements as a poet, yet many American readers knew him primarily through his prose. This collection, his third to appear in English, offers a substantial engagement with his poetry. Though a few of the poems in TO URANIA were composed in English (all of them from the 1980’s), most of the work collected here was originally written in Brodsky’s native Russian. The translations have been variously done by Brodsky himself, by other hands, or by Brodsky in collaboration with another...
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