Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky : Fellowship of Poets / Irena Grudzinska Gross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grudzińska-Gross, Irena, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Miłosz, Czesław--Criticism and interpretation.

Miłosz, Czesław.

Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996--Criticism and interpretation.

Brodsky, Joseph.

Miłosz, Czesław--Friends and associates.

Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996--Friends and associates.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This intimate portrayal of the friendship between two icons of twentieth-century poetry, Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky, highlights the parallel lives of the poets as exiles living in America and Nobel Prize laureates in literature. To create this truly original work, Irena Grudzinska Gross draws from poems, essays, letters, interviews, speeches, lectures, and her own personal memories as a confidant of both Milosz and Brodsky. The dual portrait of these poets and the elucidation of their attitudes toward religion, history, memory, and language throw a new light on the upheavals of the twentieth-century. Gross also incorporates notes on both poets' relationships to other key literary figures, such as W. H. Auden, Susan Sontag, Seamus Heaney, Mark Strand, Robert Haas, and Derek Walcott.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Abbreviations

Prologue: "A Consolatory Letter"

ONE. Pan Czesław and Iosif

TWO. Poetry, Youth, and Friendship

THREE. Friendship and the Estate of Poetry

FOUR. Women, Women Writers, and Muses

FIVE. In the Shadow of Empire: Russia

SIX. Iosif Brodskij and Poland

SEVEN. Loneliness as Always: America

EIGHT. Poetry with a Foreign Accent

NINE. Death and Friendship

TEN. Return and Death

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

Contains:

Grudzińska-Gross, Irena. Miłosz i Brodski. English

ISBN:

9780300155785

0300155786

OCLC:

884499379