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Lev Loseff (Lev Losev), Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life, trans. by Jane Ann Miller (2011; originally published in Russian, 2006), is a biography. Critical studies on Brodsky include Valentina Polukhina, Joseph Brodsky: A Poet for Our Time (1989); Lev Loseff (Lev Losev) and Valentina Polukhina (eds.), Brodsky’s Poetics and Aesthetics (1990), which includes a translation of his Nobel Prize speech; and David M. Bethea, Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile (1994).
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Anniversary information added. | May 20, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jan 24, 2026 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 28, 2025 | ||
| Added more information about his term as U.S. poet laureate. | Jan 28, 2025 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Feb 19, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Russia-InfoCentre - Biography of Joseph Brodsky. | Apr 18, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Independent - Obituary of Joseph Brodsky. | Jan 04, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: The United Nations High Commisioner for Refugees - Central Europe - Biography of Joseph Brodsky. | Jan 04, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Jewish Virtual Library - Biography of Joseph Brodsky. | Nov 07, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Library of Congress - Biography of Joseph Brodsky. | Nov 06, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe - Biography of Joseph Brodsky. | Mar 28, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academy of American Poets - Biography of Joseph Brodsky. | Mar 28, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: RT Russiapedia - Biography of Joseph Brodsky. | Mar 28, 2013 | ||
| Mentioned his tenure at Mount Holyoke College, his MacArthur grant, the apolitical nature of his writing, and select posthumous publications. | Oct 23, 2012 | ||
| A biography by Loseff added to bibliography. | Jun 24, 2011 | ||
| Media added. | Aug 04, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Pegasos - Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996). | Aug 01, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Jan 12, 2000 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Apr 22, 1999 |
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