Chapter One: Home. Parents. First Impressions (War). Heredity. The Lessons Of The City. School Days. Outskirts. Real Education. Brodsky As Jew.

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Note On Translations And Sources xiii
5. Chapter One: Home. Parents. First Impressions (War). Heredity. The Lessons Of The City. School Days. Outskirts. Real Education. Brodsky As Jew. 1
6. Chapter Two: First Jobs. Expeditions. Social Status. Early Reading. Winds From The West. Modernism. Poetry. Leningrad Poetry, Late 1950s. Brodsky’S Early Verse. Persecution-Prosecution. Umansky And His Circle. Incident In Samarkand. 25
7. Chapter Three: The Beginnings Of A Style. Boris Slutsky: Meter, Rhyme, Composition, Intonation. Leningrad Literary Circles. Evgeniy Rein: The Art Of The Elegy. Akhmatova. Marina Basmanova And New Stanzas To Augusta. 49
8. Chapter Four: Annus Mirabilis, 1964–1965: Ideology. Persecution In Leningrad. Kanatchikov Dacha And “Songs Of A Happy Winter.” Arrest And Preliminary Hearing. Pryazhka. The Trial. Support For Brodsky And International Fame. Prison. 67
9. Chapter Five: Annus Mirabilis, 1964–1965: Exile To Norenskaya. Brodsky And Basmanova. Anglo-American Poetry. Epiphany In Norenskaya. Back From Exile. 95
10. Chapter Six: After Exile: 1965–1972. Attempts At Publishing A Book. A Halt In The Desert. Long Poems (1): “Isaac And Abraham.” Long Poems (2): “Gorbunov And Gorchakov.” Leaving The Ussr. 118
11. Chapter Seven: The World According To Brodsky. Poetry And Politics. Motherland: Us And Them. Brodsky’s Asia. Questions Of Faith. The World According To Brodsky (Conclusion). Existentialism. 139
12. Chapter Eight: Arrival In The West: Auden. Brodsky In America. Carl Proff Er And Ardis. The End Of A Beautiful Era And A Part Of Speech: A Philosophy Of Prosody. The End Of A Beautiful Era And A Part Of Speech: Publication. Brodsky The Professor. Brodsky In New York. Travels. Friends And Foes. Nonmeetings: Brodsky And Nabokov. Brodsky And Solzhenitsyn Speak To America. Afghanistan And Poland. Brodsky And Solzhenitsyn. 168
13. Chapter Nine: Fame And Fortune. The Politics And Morals Of The American Campus. Brodsky And The Erotic. Urania. Brodsky In English. Essays. The Nobel Prize. 210
14. Chapter Ten: Changes At Home. Democracy ! Busy Years: 1990–1995. Illness. “Being-Toward-Death.” Death. 238
15. Notes 263
16. Selected Bibliography 305
17. Index 313