Russian-American poet Joseph Brodsky is one of the most celebrated poets of our time, preoccupied with the the nature and destiny of poetry in our era. This volume analyzes Brodsky's career in terms of key elegies and investigates the critical role of elegiac thinking in postmodernist poetics. In his elegies for poetic ancestors, family, friends, and the self, Brodsky demonstrates a concern for a paradox that is at the heart of modern elegiac poetry: attempting to find a basis for consolation in the face of death, but at length being compelled to discard traditional consolations, such as religion or art. The only source of relief is language itself, which Brodsky saw as both the origin and the final repository of values and truths.
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.,."brilliantly written argument...A rich blend of poetics and theory, this sophisticated monograph assumes close familiarity with Brodsky's life and work and the English metaphysical poetry tradition."-Choice
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Analyzes Joseph Brodsky's key elegies and the role of elegiac thinking in postmodernist poetics.
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From the l980s on, it became an increasingly acceptable shift in the critical shop talk of contemporary poetry for critics, no less than cultural commentators and journalists, to focus their attention on the "meaning" of Brodsky, rather than the meaning of the poet's work. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
traditional elegy, twenty sonnets, poetic inheritance, matter another way Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
John Donne, Lullaby of Cape Cod, United States, Joseph Brodsky, George Kline, Mary Queen of Scots, Robert Lowell, The Thames, Twenty Sonnets, World War, Roman Elegies, Soviet Union, Allen Grossman, Anthony Hecht, Eternal City, Zarah Leander, Derek Walcott, George Steiner, Iris Murdoch, Third Rome New!
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From the l980s on, it became an increasingly acceptable shift in the critical shop talk of contemporary poetry for critics, no less than cultural commentators and journalists, to focus their attention on the "meaning" of Brodsky, rather than the meaning of the poet's work. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
traditional elegy, twenty sonnets, poetic inheritance, matter another way Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
John Donne, Lullaby of Cape Cod, United States, Joseph Brodsky, George Kline, Mary Queen of Scots, Robert Lowell, The Thames, Twenty Sonnets, World War, Roman Elegies, Soviet Union, Allen Grossman, Anthony Hecht, Eternal City, Zarah Leander, Derek Walcott, George Steiner, Iris Murdoch, Third Rome New!
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