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Article: Joseph Brodsky and the Baroque.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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David MacFadyen. Joseph Brodsky and the Baroque. Montreal. McGill- Queen's University Press. 1999 ((c) 1998). viii + 258 pages. $65. isbn 0-7735-1779-0.
We are still struggling with the legacy of Joseph Brodsky. We in the West are at an advantage in that we do not have to prove to ourselves, as our Russian colleagues do, that Brodsky is a great Russian poet. Satisfied that is certainly a poet of world literature, we are still trying to assign to Brodsky his very own place in it. David MacFadyen's groundbreaking study defines the poet through his intimate connections with the Baroque, from his early fascination with the British metaphysical poets to his late ...