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On Grief and Reason: Essays by Joseph Brodsky (Paperback, 2002)

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On Grief and Reason is the second volume of Joseph Brodsky's essays, and the first to be published since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987. In addition to his Nobel lecture, the volume includes essays on the condition of exile, the nature of history, the art of reading, and the idea of the poet as an inveterate Don Giovanni, as well as a homage to Marcus Aurelius and an appraisal of the case of the double agent Kim Philby (the last two were selected for inclusion in the annual Best American Essays volume). The title essay is a consideration of the poetry of Robert Frost, and the book also includes a fond appreciation of Thomas Hardy, a Letter to Horace,a close reading of Rilke's poem Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes,and a memoir of Stephen Spender. Among the other essays are Mr. Brodsky's open letter to Czech President Vaclav Havel and his immodest proposal for the future of poetry, an address he delivered while serving as U.S. Poet Laureate. In his Nobel lecture, Mr. Brodsky declared that verse really does, in Akhmatova's words, grow from rubbish; the roots of prose are more horable - but his own prose's flowering in these essays gives us thought and language at their blest.

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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
ISBN-10
0374525099
ISBN-13
9780374525095
eBay Product ID (ePID)
104471000

Product Key Features

Author
Joseph Brodsky
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Anthologies

Additional Product Features

Place of Publication
New York
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Date of Publication
28/08/2002
Country of Publication
United States

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