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'You showed me not the slightest loyalty, affection, friendship, or minimal human decency' MacDiarmid's letters of love and hate
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NINETEEN thirty-five was Hugh MacDiarmid's annus horribilis. The
iconoclastic, bombastic, boozy genius was 43 years old and already
much of his best work was behind him, including his epic A Drunk Man
Looks At The Thistle, which he was happy to agree with the critic
David Daiches was "the greatest long poem in Scottish literature and
one of the greatest in any literature".
But MacDiarmid, who was born Christopher Murray Grieve, was in no
position to rest on his laurels. Jobless, penniless and separated
from his wife and two children, he had a nervous breakdown and by
September he was laid up ...
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Excerpts From a Joseph Brodsky Interview 10 Years Ago
Transcript from: Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)
; 00-00-0000 In memory of Joseph Brodsky, the Russian exile who became...she met and interviewed the poet Joseph Brodsky, who died this week at age 55...while living in New York City, Joseph Brodsky wrote this - `I have let into...
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Poet Laureate Joseph Brodsky Dies at Age 55
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition
; 00-00-0000 Joseph Brodsky, exiled Russian poet, died in his...Host: Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky died at his home in Brooklyn, New...references to politics in his work, Joseph Brodsky's poetry does not sound overtly...
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Joseph Brodsky and the Soviet Muse
Magazine article from: Canadian Slavonic Papers
; David MacFadyen. Joseph Brodsky and the Soviet Muse. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen...209 pp. References. Index. $49.95, cloth. The aim of Joseph Brodsky and the Soviet Muse is to portray the cultural, literary, psychological...
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Joseph Brodsky and the Soviet Muse.(Review)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today
; David MacFadyen. Joseph Brodsky and the Soviet Muse. Montreal...6. A SEQUEL TO HIS 1998 study Joseph Brodsky and the Baroque, David MacFadyen's book Joseph Brodsky and the Soviet Muse continues...
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Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile.
Magazine article from: Insight on the News
; In his new book, Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile (Princeton...authorities for "social parasitism," Brodsky survived forced labor and exile to...coexisting between the covers of Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile. On the...
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Joseph Brodsky.(Russian American poet)(Obituary)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; When Joseph Brodsky was 24 he appeared before a Soviet court...the one that killed him this week. Mr Brodsky became an American citizen in 1980...more. Talking to The Economist in 1990 Joseph Brodsky discussed, albeit reluctantly, "how...
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Obituary: Joseph Brodsky
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; In 1987 Joseph Brodsky, then 47, became the youngest person...culture, had become a master of another. Brodsky was an only child, born in Leningrad in 1940. His father, Alexander Brodsky, was serving as a naval officer - he...
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Joseph Brodsky and the Baroque.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today
; David MacFadyen. Joseph Brodsky and the Baroque. Montreal. McGill- Queen's University Press...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...
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Hoover Institution Exhibit Extended: Remembering Joseph Brodsky, 1940-1996 Continues to February 2001.
Business Wire
; ...Exhibit Pavilion, Remembering Joseph Brodsky, 1940-1996, has been extended...accompanying the recent publication of Brodsky's Collected Works in English...daughter, Anna. Remembering Joseph Brodsky can be seen through February 28...
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Joseph Brodsky's Art of Darkness; The Nobel Winner and Soviet Exile Poet, Practicing His Solitary Craft
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...calling one another to celebrate Joseph Brodsky's Nobel Prize as if it were their...journal Novy Mir to print some of Brodsky's work in December. "About...will not celebrate too much," Brodsky says. Only those Russians who...
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